"Good. You'll like him, he's very nice. He's always looking for more people to help him with his research."

"Be careful," Caspar adds, "Or he'll talk you into training a pokémon, too." Not that the Cylon minds. Not now, anyway.

Adia blinks at the question. What was it like? No one has asked her before. Not even Caspar, letting her share her experience in her own time instead. "It's... comforting. But intimidating, too. A being like that, a -- a deity, or a powerful consciousness -- it can see inside of you, what lies within your heart. It's unnerving."