Evangeline could feel Caden Albright's scorching gaze branded on her back, but she never once looked back.
As a gold-medal employee of the Transmigration Administration Bureau's "Lineage Optimization Department," she had long since engraved the first rule of the High-Risk Mission Manual into her very bones: Emotional projection is the single crack that can cause the dam of professional integrity to burst.
She had seen too many colleagues fall, from rookies to other swift and decisive gold-medal employees like herself. They had all willingly shed their system buffs, becoming nothing more than ephemeral mayflies in these little worlds, living and dying in a single day.
Compassion and emotional attachment are a book traveler's most fatal flaws.
These seemingly harmless emotions would erode her reason, ultimately causing her to make poor judgments.
'Suppressing one's humanity with rules—that is what a qualified operative must do.'
