"No," he said with his own small smile. "The Ben-Hassrath are complicated, and I shifted between specialties about mid-way through my life. For ten years I tried to keep the peace on Seheron. That island is a sack of cats, duty rotations are usually only two years at a time to avoid burnout. I was there for eight."

When Anthony moved a piece, Bull's counter-strike was quick.

"After that, I shifted specialties. I was sent to the south to spy."