Life in a Fishbowl by Len Vlahos

"It was forty minutes of uninterrupted lack of interruptions three times a week." 

"Glio leaped a metaphorical chasm. Until this point in his short life, he had been singularly occupied with the internal destruction of Jared's brain. Of course, Glio didn't think of it as destruction. He was merely fulfilling his preordained purpose in the world. he had no more choice in the matter than does the tide in the ocean. had Glio stopped to consider the arguments for and against free will, he would have come down heavily on the side of determinism."