Would that then explain what seemed almost the central puzzle, the interest the Shing took in him, their bringing him here under Estrel’s tutelage, their offer to restore his memory? There was a world not under their control; it had re-invented lightspeed flight; they would want to know where it was. And if they restored his memory, he could tell them. If they could restore his memory. If anything at all of what they had told him was true.
