Now that we know more about the Technocracy, we will get deeper into Jules Combeferre as a person and his development from raised talent-scout of the Ivory Tower for the University of Paris to someone more willing to think of six impossible things before breakfast.
At first scouting other younger students for the Technocracy, as soon as he was informed of an anomaly involving reality deviants in the backroom of a little Left Bank café he was intrigued - and felt a twinge in his chest that pulled him away from bureaucratic tedium. Eagerly he asked to be the one to research the Musain from up close. The amalgam he belonged to was decimated by those who defended the café backroom, and he was left for dead, presumed dead, by the Tower and the rest of the Technocracy... only to find a golden opportunity, when he was held hostage by Les Amis to stay out of harm's way and remain in the Technocracy's good graces, to infiltrate the ranks of these unexplainable freaks and stabbing their leader in the back (literally? by poisoning? there was still time to gain their trust before to decide how) when they least expected it.
Combeferre never expected to find himself as a loyal right-hand man to this leader, and even more and more reluctant to betray him for each day (especially after watching a play on the deaths of Dauphin François and Count Sebastiano di Montecuculi - that was the decisive catalyst that gave Combeferre the realisation). Unfortunately this decision has made the bespectacled young intellectual a reality deviant sympathiser, a traitor and a defector wanted by the Technocracy, dead or alive (alive would be worse, because of the brainwashing that would come with that).
Still Combeferre, like Marius, forms a link between the Musain and the world that others could exploit, but that remains a valuable asset.
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