Chicago—September 18, 2100
Chicago—September 18, 2100Solitude was the key to success.
At least to the wraith Theodora.
Relying upon others always introduced the possibility of betrayal.
That there were others who relied upon her was a detail.
Perhaps that isolation was the reason for Theodora’s success. She was reputed to be cold, even unfeeling, which was an accomplishment within the ranks of the wraiths, themselves notorious for their lack of emotion or ethics.
Wraiths lived outside of the system, frequenting the perimeters and the shadows of the Republic. Their identities were recorded in no databanks and their actions were invisible to the many eyes of the Republic. They were the lost souls of the world. They should not exist. Technically, they did not exist.
But they were every
