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In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be is are nurtured in widely scattered environments This predicts a wealth of unique individuals

- Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text

Jedrik made contact with McKie while he waited for the arrival of Aritch and Ceylang He had been staring absently at the ceiling, evaluating in a profoundly Dosadi way how to gain personal advantage fro encounter, when he felt the touch of her mind on his

McKie locked himself in his body

"No transfer"

"Of course not"

It was a tiny thing, a subtle shading in the contact which could have been overlooked by anyone with a less accurate siry with me," McKie said

He projected irony, knew she&039;d read this correctly

When she responded, her anger had been reduced to irritation The point was not the shading of emotion, it was that she allowed such emotion to reveal itself

"You reht of where Jedrik was at this moment: safely rocked in the flower-perfu island on the planetary sea of Tutalsee How strange such an environment must be for a Dosadi - no threats, fruit which could be picked and eaten without a thought of poisons The memories she&039;d taken from him would coat the island with fae experience His memories - yes The island would remind her of all those wives he&039;d taken to the honeymoon bowers of that place

McKie spoke from this awareness

"No doubt that early lover failed to show sufficient appreciation of your abilities, outside the bedroom, that is Which one was it"

And he na them frohed He sensed the untainted response, real humor and unchecked

McKie was reminded in his turn of one of his early wives, and thissituation from which Jedrik had co mate and a lover taken for the available enjoyht even actively dislike the breeding mate

Loverswives What was the difference, except for the socially imprinted conventions out of which the roles arose? But Jedrik did remind him of that one particular woht help him now in his relationship with Jedrik He&039;d been in his ned to one of his first personal BuSab cases, sent out with no oldtiest Huent in the Bureau&039;s history ever to be released on his own, so it was ruroup, veryin McKie&039;s previous experience: an ingrown place with deep entryways in all of the houses and an oppressive silence all around No animals, no birds, no insects - just that awesoion was reported for All conversations were low voiced and full of subtle intonations which suggested an inner co sport with all outsiders not privy to their private code Very like Dosadi in this

His wife of the moment, safely ensconced on Tutalsee, had been quite the opposite: gregarious, sportive, noisy

So about that Ylir case had sent McKie back to this ith a sharpened awareness of her needs The er than any of the others And he sahy Jedrik reminded him of that one: they both protected theh armor of femininity, but were extremely vulnerable behind that facade When the armor collapsed, it collapsed totally This realization puzzled McKie because he read his own reaction clearly: he was frightened

In the eyeblink this evaluation took, Jedrik read him:

"We have not left Dosadi We&039;ve taken it with us"

So that hy she&039;d made this contact, to be certain he mixed this datum into his evaluations McKie looked out the open It would be dusk soon here on Tandaloor The Gowachin hoe for thousands of standard years In some respects, it was a backwater

The ConSentiency will never be the same