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He sees waves of aliens cross the solar system's threshold, emerging into the light from outside the heliopause. Some of them travel with the air of eager, conquering armies, paint fresh and banners snapping. Some of them move as if they're on the run from something behind them, out in the galactic dark. | He sees waves of aliens cross the solar system's threshold, emerging into the light from outside the heliopause. Some of them travel with the air of eager, conquering armies, paint fresh and banners snapping. Some of them move as if they're on the run from something behind them, out in the galactic dark. | ||
He watches the movements of the Vex. He learns to tell them apart: the shining silver ones, the brass ones with backswept horns, the ones with eyes glowing white. Occasionally, scattered among them are pockets of Vex stained with verdigris, their arms trailing shawls of moss. All the other Vex keep away from those ones. Twice, he's seen other Vex fight the mossy ones. It looks like the other Vex are frightened of them, as much as Vex can be. | He watches the movements of the Vex. He learns to tell them apart: the [[Sol Primeval|shining silver ones]], the [[Vex Sol Collective|brass ones with backswept horns]], the ones with eyes glowing white. Occasionally, scattered among them are pockets of Vex stained with verdigris, their arms trailing shawls of moss. All the other Vex keep away from those ones. Twice, he's seen other Vex fight the mossy ones. It looks like the other Vex are frightened of them, as much as Vex can be. | ||
Some timelines have veils drawn over them, a darkness too thick to see through. They push back against Praedyth's sight, resisting. | Some timelines have veils drawn over them, a darkness too thick to see through. They push back against Praedyth's sight, resisting. | ||
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He's got all the time in the world. | He's got all the time in the world. | ||
==Deontic== | ==Deontic== | ||
The pulses are stabilizing. The voices come often enough now that Praedyth has been introduced to their owners: [[Maya Sundaresh|Sundaresh]], [[Chioma Esi|Esi]], [[Shim]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]]. Not infinite mirrored variations of them from different timelines, but simulations all split off the same base, way back in what must have been the Golden Age. Some have grown far different from their progenitors. | The pulses are stabilizing. The voices come often enough now that Praedyth has been introduced to their owners: [[Maya Sundaresh|Sundaresh]], [[Chioma Esi|Esi]], [[Shim]], and [[Duane-McNiadh]]. Not infinite mirrored variations of them from different timelines, but simulations all split off the same base, way back in what must have been the Golden Age. Some have grown far different from their progenitors. | ||