Part 4-Coalescing

So you are still…sane…now?

As sane as can be. Your presence helps.

What will happen when we go our ways?

We'll probably both go mad again.

What?

Well, I'll revert, and you'll go stark raving mad.

The Guide through Enlightenment

There are many who can touch the Power who do not join the ranks of Aes Sedai. Usually these people feel that their talents are not sufficient, or that they themselves are unreliable. Their Power is used then to help them in their jobs and to move around easily if they are strong enough to Gate. The occasional scofflaw will even use the banned portal stones occasionally.

Graduation is always such an…enlightening experience. Quickly the only people left are your true friends. And you finally begin to talk to them what you always thought.

-So what do you think-

Rahvin frowned. He usually did back then. It was only once he…"got lucky" with Moghedien that he started to smile at all the girls.

"I don't know. The Dominion was extinguished a long time ago-"

-In a galaxy far, far away. Yes. But the forces sent to destroy them wouldn't have had time to be affected-

Aginor spoke up. We had agreed that we needed Rahvin for it to work.

"Chora show the classic signs of genetic tampering, Rahvin. Look here, at the branching tree. That's not a human technique. And the only other race we've ever encountered that works with genetics was the Dominion."

Rahvin's brow furrowed deeper as he frowned more. I determined that at the present rate, his face would soon suck itself in, parodying a dying black hole.

"So what you two are telling me is that the Dominion made the Chora and sent it here so that we would become a passive species? What for?"

-Rahvin, did you ever play the Game-

"Yeah, who hasn't?"

-What happens to your troops when the Dominion wins-

His face paled. Probably rerunning level eighteen. When the Dominion troops overrun your lines and start consuming your troops. It took a long time for the Ancients to figure out that they viewed us only as food.

"If you guys are right-"

-We are-

"Then we're doomed if we ever run up against an…" Rahvin lacked the words then.

Aginor supplied them. "Aggressor Race"

"Whatever. We'll be so much meat on hoof."

-Unless we reverse the Chora effect-

His eyes went wide. Almost every male has dreamed about being out from under the influence of the pacifying trees, but at the same time we all want the complete comfort they provide.

The comfort of stagnation and decay.

Rahvin nodded his head. We had a chance now.