I'm also giving more credit to the simulation theory now - I have no familiarity with magic, but I can imagine something like that being set up with nanotech as well.

[ Funny that it had sounded like a bit of an out there suggestion when Flat said it on the bus. It doesn't feel all that off now. ]

It would also make it possible to make us clumsier, like what has occurred earlier this week. They would merely need to alter the illusion they have put our minds under, no need to mess with the rest of the body.

Florence says they didn't know what caused that, but it is possible they are being kept in the dark about a lot as well.