The first thing they taught him was how to enter a fugue state. It was the only way they could learn as much as they had to.
He was awake briefly between his graduation and his first assignment, and, at first, between missions. But physical and psychological recovery was slower during normal awareness, and after what he had to do during the Cairo riots, memory of self wasn't a welcome thing.
He resurfaced during psych evaluations, recommended liaisons, and, for five brief months, a marriage that could never have worked. Then he went deep for ten long years.
Not that time meant anything in that place.
He awoke for the last time in his life forced by drugs. It was standard preparation for interrogation procedures; fugue interrupted the circuits of pain.
.finis.
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