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EIGHT Swarm 139
NINE Chinchee Returns 157
TEN Historian's Method 177
ELEVEN Hiveheart 197
TWELVE Dissolution 219

LAWS OF SYMMETRY, PARITY, AND POLARITY
TENTH OBSERVATION OF SHOSHUNRI
"The Law of Parity requires that some energies, when Inverted, remain symmetrically unchanged. Others, however, change sign. It is incumbent upon the Incarnate to assess this property correctly for each energy dealt with."
-SECOND OBSERVATION OF SHOSHUNRI
"Polarization is the Law of Nature which reveals the essence of Completion, for as the positive pole generates the negative, or as victory generates defeat, and the profane generates the sacred, or the group generates the individual, so does identity, the sum of many generations, generate its own adversary, and so does the Observed generate the Observer. Destroy one pole, and
the remaining one will regenerate its opposite, to
complete itself."
THIRD OBSERVATION OF SHOSHUNRI
"The Laws of Nature are .symmetric around a central axis of reflection. He who travels that axis reaches Completion."
From: Purpose and Method by: Shoshunri, Observing Priest of Aliom

JINDIGAR'S OLIAT
Protector Receptor
female male Venlagar
Eithlarin (Zannesu)
(Trinarvil)
Center Jindigar
Formulator Inreach Emulator
female male Zannesu female
Darllanyu (Venlagar) Llistyien
Outreach
Krinata
FUNCTIONS OF OLIAT OFFICES
Inreach: holds the pattern of intensities of the linkages.
Protector: resonates to all factors balancing an ecology and understands the protective strategies appropriate in a particular environment and uses them to protect the Oliat.
Formulator: perceives the underlying patterns that connect the balanced forces; can extrapolate results of an imbalance. Relates data to formulate patterns and find meaning.
Emulator: grasps the inwardness of a species or system while the Protector deals with the outwardnesses. The Emulator can bring a species' self-perception inside the Oliat so that understanding is on an unconscious level.
Receptor: reacts to incoming signals, thus causing the whole Oliat to respond to changes in the balances around them.
Outreach: the output portal for the Oliat as a whole or for the Center. The Outreach is the only Officer able to speak aloud.

The Outreach may speak for the whole Oliat as if it were one mind, or for the Center alone.
Center: synthesizes all data into a clear picture of the environment, the individuals, and all the relationships between them. It is the Center's responsibility to bring the Officers of the Oliat closer to Completion through the exercise of accurate observation.

ONE
Wedding Trial
The Aliom Temple was already set up for the weddings. Jindigar, at nearly seven thousand years of age, had been married at all four of his previous Renewals. But even so, a tense awe and shivering anticipation were settling over him, as if he'd never known a woman's urgent touch.
But he was remarrying his first wife, the most deeply satisfying. He should be serene and confident, leading the others, as was expected of a Priest of Aliom.
Restless, he paced the length of the Temple hall, keenly aware of the smell from the freshly polished wood paneling. The gleaming walls reflected the ceremonial fire in the circular hearth at the end of the room near the entry.
The door was open on this early spring morning, mixing , the alien scent of the reviving world with the strange perfumes of native wood smoke, but little light filtered around the interlocking, curved walls of the entry tunnel.
At the opposite end of the windowless hall, on what the humans called a staircase that went nowhere, four hooded marriage flames danced in their smoked-glass containers amid the symbols of Aliom, displayed on the steps one above the other. At midnight Jindigar had kindled the wedding flame for Darllanyu just as the three other men had for their mates. And she, with the other women, had concealed the flame. That had been his moment of commitment to the remarriage. Why was he so agitated now?
He paused at the edge of the marriage circle, below the

skylight. The rays of the morning sun were focused by the slanted panes above him to set the crushed white gravel of the marriage circle to glowing visually, even for Dushau eyes, so ill adjusted to this world's sun.
But to his other senses, from below the crushed white gravel, from deep in the center of the planet, a fountain of pure white energy, the energy of the planet itself, erupted upward, flowing out through the skylight and dissipating in the air above the Temple. The marriage circle was laid over the worldcircle, at the point where the energy of sun and planet met, the condition necessary to create life.