Ves had no idea what was going on!
In one moment, Taon was blaming himself for his failures, and in the next, Ylvaine's spiritual fragment suddenly jumped into his mindscape!
The Protectors of the Faith instantly moved into the room after their monitoring system detected something amiss. They immediately took Taon away to the infirmary when they realized that he had fainted for some reason.
"What happened here, Mr. Larkinson?" One of the Protectors asked.
"I don't know. I was just talking with Taon when he suddenly went out cold. I didn't do anything. Maybe his exhaustion and his depression got the better of him. He wasn't in the best shape when he arrived."
While Ves talked to Taon in private, he hadn't activated any signal jammers or ECM this time. The Protectors should have assigned some men to monitor their conversation, so the Protectors already knew that Ves told the truth.
