Sharon had had some time to figure things out, and knew Jim well enough that he'd have wanted to ask too but was giving everyone the "I'm supposed to get it so I'm pretending to" face. Guys...
"That's another Faction. Their charter is to bring supremacy to magic users everywhere, even introducing magic to realities that don't make much use of it -- we believe that doing so would seriously strain the fabric of reality, and apparently, it has happened. I suspect that right now their people are the only ones who can travel free between alts. The Gaians make limited use of magic, but it's the slow change sort... mainly mild probability manipulation. Tills, do you think that the Order used CC to achieve this?"
"They probably gave help, I doubt CC is controlled by the Order, but I would bet that they have at least one infiltrate at a high level nudging things along. I haven't been able to communicate with my chain of command for a while now, but it's likely that the Order has by now started an expansion campaign... wether by invasion or societal infiltration I don't know, likely a mixture of both."
"Yeah, yeah, we got that far. So what now, all-out war?" Karen answered dryly before Henri had time to speak. Had anyone paid attention, they'd have seen a subtle but unmistakeable shift in her expression.
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