A Data Surge must be deployed only if you feel confident of an exceptional yield.
The quantity of information captured will require enormous labor to tease apart and process.
Its transmission will register on any enemy monitoring device.
We can guarantee its effectiveness only once.
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Reach between your right fourth and pinky toes （if right-handed） and remove the Data Plug from your Universal Port.
Insert the plug’s magnetic wire into any port on the subject’s phone.
Seat yourself on the floor, away from sharp surfaces, and brace your back against a wall.
A red ribbon has been tucked inside your Universal Port; hold this in one of your palms.
Spread apart your toes and gently reinsert the plug, now magnetically fused to your subject’s phone, into your Universal Port.
You will feel a surge as the data floods your body.
The surge may contain memory, heat, cold, longing, pain, or even joy.
Although the data are alien, the memories dislodged will be your own: Peeling an orange for your husband in bed on a Sunday, sunlight splashing tossed sheets; The smoky earthen smell of the fur of your childhood cat;
The flavor of the peppermints your mother kept for you inside her desk.
The impact of a Data Surge may prompt unconsciousness or short-term memory loss.
The purpose of the red ribbon is to orient you; if you awaken to find yourself clutching one, look to your foot.
When your body is quiet, detach the subject’s phone and return it to its original location.
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A Data Surge will leave a ringing in your ears that may obscure the sound of another person’s arrival.
A face that brought you relief once may trigger relief a second time.
When an alpha beauty screams at you in an unfamiliar language, it may mean she’s too sleepy to recall just who you are.
It may also mean she’s calling someone else.
Beauty status will not excuse your appearance where you are not supposed to be.
Prepare to defend yourself at the first sign of physical encroachment.
Your new host lunging at you, shouting, “What the fuck are you doing?” constitutes physical encroachment.
Thrusting your elbow into the tender socket under his jaw will send him backward onto the floor.
The cries of a newborn will lure its mother away from even the physical travails of her mate.
A man disabled by an elbow blow will have little reaction to infant cries.
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At the revelation of martial-arts expertise, a man who has perceived you as merely a beauty will recalculate your purpose.
An immediate exit is advisable.
A slim, catlike man may well rebound before a hasty exit can be made.
Watch his eyes: He’ll be measuring the distance to his nearest firearm.
Kicking him in the foreneck, even barefoot, will temporarily occlude his windpipe.
The alpha beauty of a violent man will know where his firearm is kept and how to use it.
A woman holding a gun and a baby no longer qualifies as a beauty.
No beauty is really a beauty.
Disabling a gun holder will likely hurt the baby she is holding.
As Americans, we prize human rights above all else and cannot sanction their violation.