“And yours too?”
He dipped his head in agreement, the movement of the ghostly image blurred. “Perhaps. I instructed the Refuge"s systems to do something similar when I constructed them, and they found nothing. It made me feel better about myself as I believed Concordance had no way of knowing that would be my plan.”
“You"re sure Aefrid Sen wasn"t one of them, too? That the Radiant Dragon and the Refuge aren"t hopelessly compromised?”
“Again, it"s possible. There comes a point when you have to trust your judgement, otherwise you"d never do anything.”
“Tell me the story. Tell me how you ended up being a part of Concordance. And then how you ended up not being.”
“It"s no great mystery. It took me time to find my path in life when I was younger. A common enough situation. I was impre
