Trust in Faith
The decoys generated by the mirror beast had lost their ability to mingle with the actual humans serving on the Dominion of Man.
The absence of a white corona implied two different possibilities.
The most obvious reason why the individual in question failed to earn Caramond's recognition was because he or she was never truly human in the first place.
The less obvious reason was because the suspicious subject was truly human, yet did not believe in the cause that practically everyone living in human society learned in their first days at school.
That last part held troubling implications.
It was incredibly difficult for people to grow up in any part of human civilization without developing a massive sense of pride and confidence in their own species.
From the lowliest of third-rate states to the most powerful first-rate superstates, each of them had fallen into the grip of a culture centered around the inherent superiority of the human race.