"Optimism is a character flaw, yet it is almost anticipated if not expected of human nature." - Ms. Pristine Defined by disease and betrayal, Ms. Trevice Pristine is a woman with a disturbing temperament and a personal history which has left her with a callous advantage in the dangerous and competitive underground of Las Vegas. Despite how brilliant and confident she appears, her defenses keep her emotions as indolent as the death she creates. As a mid-level assassin, her sense of order is established and routine until it is disrupted by the slaying of her closest confidant. Her loss ignites a firestorm of embitterment which quickly infiltrates her work. With her days escalating to the pace of a strobe light, the intricacies of her career inflicts muscle failure as she wrestles with the past. Every ending explores a beginning and with a fateful twist, grief casts a promising shadow of a new dawn. Ms. Pristine owes her existence to someone's leap of faith, yet when is the value of loyalty worth more than the sacrifice her heart must make?