The memory unit did not give up its secrets quickly.
In Rohan's first few days after returning from the eastern expedition, he found that truth more frustrating than almost anything else on Cael Athis.
It sat behind glass in the crash ledger hall, sealed inside a padded case as though it were a living thing that might wake if handled too carelessly. People came to look at it in silence. Some touched their line-plates before approaching. Others refused to enter the hall at all, claiming there was no good reason to disturb a voice from the ship that had already cursed their ancestors with survival.
Bryan, however, looked at it like a starving man looking at bread.
