Have you ever tried creating an uncomfortable silence to test someone? And when they stutter some stupid salad of words to make it less awkward, you just stare at them in disgust? It's a mighty elevating feeling. I heard. Never tried it, of course, I'm no sadist. Just kidding, surely I did it, with great joy. I refrain from it now that I have felt the power it withholds, to be saved for another day, savored in drops, to not numb the satisfaction by greedily gorging the pleasure. That control over instinct, is that not what keeps me human?