“What is it?”
“It"s about Kane. You said you needed to understand what made him do what he did.”
She still needed answers, something to make sense of events on Maes Far. The slump of her father to the ice, the fan of spraying blood, played through her mind"s eye one more time.
“Tell me.”
“I looked into his background. He came from a planet called Migdala on the periphery of the central mass. It happens to be a world I keep an eye on as a potential flashpoint. Some interesting information came in about it. There"s been bubbling rebellion on the planet for some years, so far successfully suppressed by Concordance. They have a festival called the Carnival of Masks, celebrated across most continents and adopted and adapted by most Migdalan cultures. It"s essentially a week of partying
