Victor tapped one of the bolts on his collar with a finger. "Not entirely," he shrugged. "You still have free will... most of the time. The curses that take that away are few and far between. It's usually a question of 'when' or 'how', and you can choose the 'who'."

"I'm guessing Eros was smart enough to know most of us won't have sex out in the open," he mused. "So we got a roof over our heads and a bed." If he remembered right, Clarke wouldn't mind the lack of refrigeration or indoor plumbing. "I don't think it's Earth, but you can't exactly go off the island to check, so who knows?"