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Human."
                  "Oh, shit."
                  I swear, the giant Kresh started laughing. Or he was choking on the chicken he just ate.
                  "Just how in the Hell is that supposed to happen?" I asked.
                  "I have a plan," he said after his laughter ebbed, "You must Mark us all."
                  "I'm not that powerful," I said.
                  "I have been seeing Kresh with a Mark so powerful, it is taking Farrara'Ti. I have made inquiries. They are Marked by Rash'Tor'Ri. I even examined one of these Marks. It was the same that you Lashed out with the last time we were both here. Only it is so much more powerful."
                  Oh, shit. Gorvelis.
                  "If you can Mark with such power, we can spread this Mark throughout those such as I. There are more of us. When our numbers are high enough, we can take our world away from those who will not evolve."
                  "And during this time, they'll be trying to destroy this planet."
                  "I cannot stop that," he said with genuine regret in his aura, "They outnumber my kind by such numbers."
                  "I see," I said, "What numbers would you bring with your clans?"
                  "My clans number fourteen million," he said, "With the allies I can bring into this, perhaps another fifteen million. There are hundreds of millions of the others out there. I am certain we can take more but I must find them."
                  "Meanwhile, Earth is under attack."
                  "You must hold, Rash'Tor'Ri," he said, "They will not unify, they will keep attacking but there will be no unity in these attacks. One will try, if he fails, another. They are limited to one facility, now, so they can only have one Great Gate open at any given time. You must stop them when they come and I will try to move as quickly as possible on their flanks. They are unable to unify but we are not.
                  "If possible, kill any Farrara'Ti that comes through. It will set them back for a time and give us more time to build our forces."
                  "What if you took the facility to Earth?"
                  "There are Farrara'Ti with as much as ninety million Kresh. They would roll over my clans as if I was not there and then they would roll over your world as well. We cannot afford to draw that much attention to what is happening here. Not until our numbers are high enough to stand."             
                  "Damn," I said, "There's not really an easy way to do this."
                  "It is a small chance for any of this to succeed, Rash'Tor'Ri."
                  "How much attention would you call to yourself if you took the facility of another world? One not openly at war?"
                  "This is a normal thing. For a larger clan to push out a smaller for one of the colonies."
                  "The first thing is this," I said, "I can't do that Mark alone. I have to go to Cerres to do that."
                  "Second, if I go to Cerres, you have to get me back here to face them when they come."
                  "Third, after this is done, you'll have to take the Cerres facility. This won't be a problem, because the one who holds it is mine. His clans are small and he's a relatively new Farrara'Ti. The world is mine now and I need it protected. It will also give you a single base of operations to work from."
                  He had nodded at all these statements.
                  "And fourth, are you goin to eat that last piece of chicken?"
                  As I walked back down off of the mountain range, my mind was still trying to come to grips with what was going on. Everything was spiraling into so much more than