Sera Myrvalis possessed her great-uncle's flat, unreadable, terrifyingly still eyes, but she did not possess his towering, self-destructive arrogance.
Where Rethik had firmly believed he could hold the entirety of the world's complex geopolitical landscape inside his own organic mind, Sera knew with absolute certainty that she could not. Human memory was flawed, subject to fatigue, emotional bias, and the slow degradation of time. She did not trust herself to remember every detail. She trusted the Structured Analytical Framework. She trusted the relentless, unforgiving logic of the machine.
