Kylar Luppas’s body hadn’t been found, but it was possible the lake had claimed it as one of the secrets it would keep for years or decades. And there was the possibility that the elf merc had survived even the water elemental’s attack and escaped the dragnet of both UCAS and Lone Star forces. Neither of those entities, however, had been too interested in finding him. After all, Falkenhayne and her programming were the bottom line.