PrologueLarry Witze spent the majority of his adult life as director of the Slave Sanctuary on the Chancellor’s Estate.
His passion, however, was reading.
He especially loved to read history books and had read enough of them to understand better than most how and why, centuries later, the world he knew had changed so much from the world of the past he read about.
He was fascinated by the wars of the past. Wars that grew larger with every discovery of new lands and new people and were eventually fought on a massive global scale with such devastating weaponry that death could strike with the guiltless touch born of long distance.
Back then, he’d read, it was commonly thought nuclear weapons, economic disaster, and widespread disease would be humanity’s downfall. Ironically, the fall, whe
