Sir Yevgeni is – probably – a very bad man. A week after he visited Gwynneth, there was a pagan uprising. A mere two days after he left Rampart, the rebels managed to shoot down a shuttlecraft carrying a Li Halan duke. Unfortunate coincidences, he insists. He’s been linked to Antimonists, to Sathraists, to Third Republicans, even to Vuldrok shamans. Of course, none of this can be proven.