Pazu was not in the best of moods, when the Master Tracker had notified him that his starship was hidden in a valley near the the Taruunsat Mountains in the Ramada Desert. After docking his own lander on the dorsal hatch, Pazu went down to the hangar bay and handed the samples he had of the Blight over to the huge, bulking medical officer, Goran-Goran of Augustani. He watched Silver101, the silvery skinned cyborganic lifeform of the ship's crew, assist the medical officer work on the samples in the disposable Iso-Lab until the Master Tracker came up to him. The Master Tracker remarked, "I am picking up TWO Naga distress beacons. One is affixed to the top of Shalmiraine, the ancient artifact fortress of proto-humans, and one is nearby on one of the human's flying cities! How is this possible? We are to rescue Tiyyee the White, administrator of the Sururin Enclave--where did the other beacon come from?" Pazu exploded, "Because there are TWO NAGAS on planet! One is Tiyyee, the other is her daughter. Tiyyee was pregnant when she fled from the invasion by Jongwe! Remember?" The Master Tracker's tentacle's twitched in anger, being talked to so disrespectfully, and said in a flat tone, "My memory is unflawed. I didn't say, 'Two beacons from the Sururin Enclave'--I said,'two NAGA beacons. I shouldn't be surprised that Tiyyee's daughter had survived, but why are they still on planet? DAUGHTER? Did you make contact?" Pazu paused, relishing what he was about to strike his commander with. Pazu said slowly, "You are aware that I am almost to rank of Thoth in Independent Studies, aren't you?" The Master Tracker's tentacle's twitched again and slid around in agitation. Pazu blinked. "I did NOT make contact. My friend, Narchi--the artificial life-form I have told you of HAS! More so--he had a hand in the invention ON THIS PLANET of a Relative Inertia Field!" The Master Tracker recoiled in fear and uttered,"The improbability of this is unbelievable!" Pazu folded his wings and looked pleased with himself as he said with finality,"You never asked WHAT the name that Tiyyee-the-White, Leader of Nada-Haltu, and head of the Sururin Matriarchy NAMED HER CHILD! She gave it the name of 'Measure-of-the-Bridge-Between-Worlds'!" The Master Tracker's arms and tentacles went numb and the locater globe he held bounced on the deck-plates. "That is the only name given to one of the 'Four Sisters'! The guardians of the human species that the ancient proto-humans built into their enigmatic probability engines! That means--because YOU came HERE first--that they have involved YOU in the vast web of probability." The Master Tracker picked up the remote locater globe and said, "THAT action might well have doomed us all." Pazu nodded and retorted,"Maybe! I'm not giving up,yet! I'm going to recontact Narchi and find out his plans. Apparently he is more involved with being a 'strange attractor' in this mess, than I am. I think if we help humans in this--perhaps we'll survive." The Master Tracker said flatly, "Remember Triangulum?" The Master turned and stalked off. Pazu was stung by the invocation of the greatest betrayal in recorded history. Almost all the allies of humankind had died when the ancient humans had destroyed that entire galaxy. Pazu would rather BE a cog in the ancient macroscopic probability weapon than have it pointed at him. Pazu felt Goran-Goran and Silver101's eyes on him as he left the Master's ship. --TO BE CONTINUED!-- Media is Poser6&7, Blacksmith2.2,Wings3d,PSP7