Medical technologies had made eyeglasses virtually obsolete among Domhanians. Trace’s continued reliance on small round spectacles that fit snuggly on his nose added to his bookish persona. The almost perfect skin that belied his age and his boyish good looks made him a person easily underestimated. Brigadier Migael did not. Nor did the Brigadier share the Grandmaster’s high regard for the Presidium’s Chief Administrator.
Trace was one of the very few administrators who had been retained by the Serefim Presidium upon Grandmaster Elyon’s return from exile on Froitas. Elyon was stubborn, but he was not stupid. Trace was a technocrat who knew how things worked, how to make things run smoothly, and where the skeletons were buried. He had performed flawlessly during Elyon’s earlier tenure as G
