Everyone's a component within a system; a slave to the System.
 
 
 
I slowly close my eyes
Hoping I’d wake up in my own bed, wrapped up in my suede sheets
Head pressed against my soft pillow
Instead, I unpeeled my eyes to a woman standing above me
Straight, black hair down to her chest
Milky white skin but not too pale
I swore I could see the ocean inside her bright blue eyes…
Alex Cross, The Taste of Red.