It was only after standing in a daze for a few moments that Daneel finally got back to his senses.
From the beginning, the biggest proponent that the Overseer was not someone with ulterior motives was that he had done nothing so far to indicate that he did not really have the best interests of the continent at heart.
True, he had acted quite cold in many situations, and had taken many decisions that would make him seem outright evil, but all of these could be explained away by the logic that they made sense when one viewed them with the big picture in mind.
Yet, with this… Everything changed.
It now made sense for whoever had taken the role of the Overseer to wait and bide their time, as no matter what their objective might be, it would only be in a time of war when they would be able to act with the most freedom.
