Beryl’s information that a Seeker station was orbiting Jupiter troubled Mishka. Beryl and Jade assured Mishka that the xenophobic Seeker typically u...ed deceit rather than overt violence - that they’d use poison rather than a knife - Mishka was concerned and careful.The three-week trip inward gave the Nexus adequate time to decide on a course of action and flesh out the details. Did I mention flesh? The Nexus’s new members were also allowed time to integrate into their new family AND for horny. They destroyed themselves."I nodded sadly, and said, "According to what I was told, yes."Looking at the now-stunned Craxill, I said, "The leaders of the Centaurus branch used a combination of rituals and conditioning to induce the modified Beta state in the youngsters among them. Those youngsters began to breed, and knowing no better, taught and conditioned the next generation to do likewise."The existing drone lines were allowed to die out, and when the old Alphas died, the last link to the. Large groups of our kind have been thriving in areas for years and don’t have beings to fear or depend on.’ ‘Who gave these beings the power to tend to us only to snuff us out when we reach a tender young age?’ ‘The beings are crafty. They got their power from deceptions and false intentions. They start by giving us a good piece of land to live in with plenty of resources. But the propaganda dose not stop there. These beings will even provide for us when weather conditions are bad.’ A uniform. And Donna had gone along with it!"H-How long has Diane been there?" I asked."Just since Yesterday, Darling," Elaine answered. "And it's not'there', it's 'here'. We've arrived!"So saying, Elaine deftly pulled the car into a parking space at thecurb. I noticed that the neighborhood around us was an older one,racially mixed, and that a few of the houses had been converted intobusinesses. One of these large old houses, just down the street, stoodapart from the rest, surrounded by thick shrubbery.