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every dark cloud of energy had been absorbed and contained in a prison of Silver. Unfortunately, we lost many Calens to the toxicity of the Silver, but their lives were worth the sacrifice for the good of us all.”
    Pam sat picking at her nails, bored with the history lesson, and Olso's condescending tone. * I'm sure the Calens who gave their lives didn't have much of a choice. If Husken Silver toxicity is anything like radiation poisoning, they would've suffered excruciating deaths.* Pam shuddered at the thought of what they must've endured, hair coming out in clumps, teeth falling out, pustulating skin lesions. She studied Olso and Emeara.
Maybe not the hair and teeth falling out, they didn't seem to have any.
    Pam pushed herself from the chair, standing with arms crossed, foot tapping. “Look, thanks for the history lesson, but I don't see how this has any bearing on what happened to my father. He's being held prisoner. He could be dying. We need to go rescue him. Now.”
    Olso's blue eyes narrowed. “I see you are as imprudent as your father.”
    Pam's eyes widened in anger, fists clenched at her sides. “Me? You overbearing hunk of metal.”
    “Please, Pamela,” interjected Emeara. “If you are to believe us about the validity of releasing the Shalit from his prison, you must hear the rest of the tale.”
    Pam shook her head.
Yup, definitely good cop, bad cop.
With a loud huff, she sat back down, legs crossed, kicking the crossed leg back and forth. “Okay, but make it fast. However, I don't believe there's anything you can tell me that will convince me to release the damn thing.”
    The two faces turned toward each other.
They're talking to each other, again. It doesn't make any sense. If they are
Weesa
, shouldn't they already know what one another are thinking?
    Emeara gave a slight nod, then turned back to Pam. “We were once like you, wearing mortal bodies, but when the end of our lives grew near, we chose to have our brains removed and linked to this ship. We are now immortal for as long as
Weesa
remains intact.
    “
Weesa
has a long history. She once used Rem brains for her computing system. The deep space captains discovered the more Rem brains installed on a ship, the faster the ships traveled. The captain of
Weesa
grew greedy, and installed more brains than any other ship had tried. Unforeseen by the captain, the Rem brains evolved, and took over the function of the ship. They referred to themselves as a singular entity, called 'The One.' ”
    Pam's head jerked up from where she'd been fiddling with her grandmother's wedding ring. “When I was trying to focus on my dad, to locate his whereabouts, I was blocked by something called 'The One.' ”
    “Yes, my dear,” Emeara said with a sad smile, “they are the one and same. For you see, when
Weesa
finally returned back to Calen from her mutinous journey, the brains were dismantled. Most of them were contained in Husken Silver, to prevent them from evolving any further. We were terrified of what we created, and didn't know how far they would evolve. Would they become more powerful than us? So they were imprisoned, all but one. That brain was taken and installed in Bindkall Prison, where it remains to this day.”
    “Wait a minute,” Pam said, shaking her head. “This makes no sense. I thought the Planet Destroyers were the only ones you encased in Husken Silver. Are you saying the Rem brains are the Planet Destroyers?”
    “That was the conundrum,” Emeara said with a sad sigh.
    “We were not as foolish as you Humans to think we were the only technologically advanced society in the universe,” Olso said, a smirk scarring her beautiful, pale face. “We knew not where the Planet Destroyers originated from. We experimented on lower life forms, why not other such minded societies? We took no chances. We imprisoned them all.”
    Pam glowered at Olso, her face flushed with anger. She felt the psychic energy crackling through her body. She wanted