“The greatest mystery of multi-awareness is the requirement of a causal connection. Our own experiments stalled because unrelated events or persons cannot neither be accessed nor manipulated. Linuka Omga developed—or always possessed—the ability to create this connection, to anyone, anywhere, anytime.” “She can decide what becomes reality?” “No, she is there—before a decision is even made.”

The law had not been written for moments like this. Vriifaach Deegb could feel it pressing against the edges of reason, old statutes resurfacing from frontier times when survival mattered more than clarity. Adoption. Citizenship. Precedent. Across from him, Linuka Omga waited in silence, already thinking several steps ahead. Some problems could not be solved by power. Only by knowing which rule still applied, and which could be bent.

The woman looked like Linuka’s mother. Elegant. Alive. And utterly wrong. She spoke with the calm certainty of someone already seated at the center of power, dismantling Linuka’s assumptions piece by piece. Plans Linuka thought were invisible had been seen. Anticipated. Neutralized. For the first time, Linuka understood the difference between having power—and wielding it.