 Which terms best describe the tone of the passage in which Terry incinerates 23 of his long-term barn residents?
But think—we get this house rent-free; I've got my own district with no bosses around; I make my own hours; you'll meet lots of people that stop in at the pound. If I don't want to follow my aptitudes, the only choice is common labor. Destroying unclaimed units is the smallest part of it. The suburban street wound among the pastel plasticoid cottages that were set approximately two to an acre on the lightly wooded land. With its population legally fixed at three hundred million, most of the country had become one big suburb, dotted with community centers and lined with narrow belts of industrial development. He found himself in Sherman III Community Center—eight blocks of commercial buildings, serving the surrounding suburbs. You will immediately begin a systematic and thorough survey of all animals whose serial numbers fall in the Bermuda-K-99 series for birth dates during July 2234. Seize all animals in this category, impound, and run proper sections of normalcy tests. He disclaims memory of deviant's serial number. This could be a ruse to bring a stop to investigations when one animal is found. If allowed to reach age-set or adulthood, such a deviant could be dangerous to its owner or to others. Its replacement-quota of new neutroids was around three hundred animals a month. He tried to estimate how many of July's influx had been K-99s from Bermuda Factory. And there were only eleven empty neutroid cages in his kennel. He wadded the memo in his pocket, then nosed the truck onto the highway and headed toward Wylo City and the district wholesale offices of Anthropos, Inc. They should be able to give him a list of all July's Bermuda K-99 serial numbers that had entered his territory, together with the retailers to whom the animals had been sold. It's a K-48 series, five-year-old, three-year set. You're welcome to it, Doctor, but you can't fake a serial number. Only thirty-five of July's Bermuda-K-99s had entered his territory, and they were about equally divided among five pet shops, three of which were in Wylo City. After lunch, he called each of the retail dealers, read them the serial numbers, and asked them to check the sales records for names and addresses of individual buyers. The robot operator, which had on tape the working habits of each Wylo City citizen, began calling numbers. It found the off-duty sheriff on its third try, in a Wylo pool hall.
 Hopeless and unsettled
 Excited and reinvigorated  Relieved and composed  Hopeless and unsettled  Unphased and unapologetic