That voice. He hasn't had to deal with it in months and now it's plaguing him here? Of all places? When he left his command on Earth he thought he had heard the last of Lieutenant Lord Ivan Vorpatril. But no, that would make his life far too simple in this hazardous period. If he had any doubt in his mind this was a punishment for an offense of his forefathers, it's wiped from his mind now.

"Lieutenant Vorpatril," he hisses sharply tone low as he turns to face the other man. "Are you now in the habit of--"

That's where his sentence stops as he takes in his former subordinate. There's something older about him, an air about him that the man hadn't possessed when they had met on Earth. What in the Nexus is going on here?