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There is a Ranger at a table, observing the show outside the Window.

On the table in front of him is a glass teapot, a steaming kettle, several cups and some little green nodule things.

Company, as always, is appreciated.

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"We tend to be our own worst enemy," he said.

Ha.

You have no idea.

("Nice try, Jazz. But me, my future... I'm inevitable.)

"How did people...come to have powers? Were you born that way? Is it something that might happen in my world over time?"

He ponders possible answers for a moment. He will not lie to the boy, but how much of the truth should he tell?

"For the most part, it has been the 'long painful pressures of time', as I said before. However, a very long time ago there was...interference. Another race took some humans and altered them."

He looks toward the window. Toward the destruction.

"The first certifiable telepaths were born not half a century later."

"So. The human race evolved...because we got probed by aliens."

That almost made him laugh.

It does make the Ranger laugh, or at least chuckle.

"Oh, we probably would have evolved in any case, but the interference certainly speeded things up a bit. Once an advantageous trait has been introduced, it tends to spread quickly."

Too quickly...or perhaps not quickly enough as the strife leading to the Telepath War showed. Behind his impartial mask, the Ranger begins to wonder if this boy might not be a similar catalyst for his world.

And what kind of change might he bring?

Peace? Protection?

...Or widescale mass destruction?

Danny would've had a few things to say about it if it'd been said out loud, but as it hadn't been, his gaze was occupied by the door.

"I really don't want to, but I probably should go," he said ruefully, and then he shot the man a grin. "It was...interesting meeting you."

"Are you around here a lot, because I totally have more questions and it's not every day you meet a super-evolved human space ranger."

"Ahhh, duty calls, I take it," he says. "I know the feeling well."

He smiles at Danny and nods his head. "I'm here when I can be, but I think we'll see each other again quite soon, Danny.

Who is Bearach to my eyes, he adds silently. "Valen watch over you."

His report to Entil'Zha about this most recent stay in Milliways should be...interesting.

"Um...whoever that is watch over you too, I guess," Danny said, and he made his way to the door, took a deep breath...and made the jump back to reality.

Hooray reality.

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