The Human Control for the Soreiti's Regression Test

The man reminds me of an Agamalizard. His face is elongated, reptilian, and there is something that resembles like a bony ridge running through the middle of his skull from front to back. The electric blue circle ringing one iris confirms that he has a sensory augmentation implant. I force myself to smile and say, Of course, I'm here as a human control for the regression test. Dr. DeMegi does not smile back. He might be a professor of memoryonics, or whatever they're calling this version of their AI nonsense these days,. but he is much younger than me, by at least seven decades, probably more. Some one should have taught