I should be reading Firebird v2 right now, but... I got distracted. >__>

I have to admit the synopsis of this story didn't really catch my eye... I didn't even click until today. That's probably not your fault, though. Kind of hard to summarize something like this. =P

This made me think, which may or may not be a good thing. Fortunately, it read smoothly, which faciliated the thinking. So part of me follows the story as you tell it and thinks the end-experiment words are "the experiment has begun," but there's another backward part of me that thinks maybe this is all a huge elaborate setup and the end of this really IS the beginning of the experiment (I did get the feeling that all the run-ins at the beginning were staged, almost like Jed was part of a play). It could be a study on the reaction of the subject to these conditions specifically, i.e. what he does when confronted w/ a start-anew opportunity. I'd thought the experiment sounded a little too social for something that came out of an institute of technology... maybe the thing being tested is the effects of induced memory loss?

Eh, oh well. Enough jabbering. I have some other misc questions/comments...
- "said the boy. Anyway, you know Tabitha" - you missed the beginning quotes here for the boy's dialogue
- "I never would have gotten the chance to talk to you if I’d stayed Lincoln’s resident narcissistic **." - I thought it was implied that while he was the old Jed he did talk to Tabitha
- "You gave me trigger words, Brian... I return it to you now.” - "it" should be "them"
- “This experiment has gone too far,” he said. “I’m calling an end.” - why does he say he's calling an end to it if he's actually just giving Brian/Jed the choice to call an end to it?
- I'd thought the rally was on the roof, but after the final scene it seemed like Jed was speaking from the roof and the other ppl were down on the green (not on the roof). Unless you meant to imply the building had a green on the roof?

Anyway, that was interesting. I must admit I'm kind of curious to see what the out-of-control version looks like, though. ;)

I'm so confused by this chapter, haha. It seems interesting.

You're continuing the Firebird series? Oh my gosh, that makes me so absurdly excited that I can barely describe it. Where would I be able to read more?