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Kaine was lucky he was across the table, and Alexander was currently containing all his anger, that gave him the ability to contain his anger. However, if Kaine was going to pose the question, he would pose the answer. "Casren, that's who sired me" he told Kaine, staring at him with his contained anger. "And now, you are falling into what they want you to. You are randomly accusing people of treason. We are looking at a possibility of mass infiltration, so of course that's what anyone would expect at least someone to do...you should not let your anger"

Now, he turned to Zosimos "We need someone who they could not have predicted we would get then. If they have taken this much preparations, it is safe to assume they are anticipating our movements, and have failsafes in place. They are trying to set up something I saw two hundred and thirty four years ago, A "Nerve Loop" they called it. You set up a scenario where you have to be paranoid, because you don't know who you can trust, but at the same time, you cant be paranoid, because you don't know who you can trust, and you cant let it control you. Do either of these, and you lose the game. You get stuck in their loop. The key is control, you have to be just paranoid enough, but not fall right into it. That's what I remember, anyways. This is on a much larger scale then before...and better thought out".

"If this is a game of chess, then we must add new pieces. Different colored pieces, that work for us". Alexander was thinking big now, very big. However, he looked at Frederic next. "Which was something I was about to get to. We are facing an enemy who may have infiltrated us, but how do we know? Maybe there is no one, maybe they just want us to think that to destroy ourselves. Like I said, we can't be too paranoid. This enemy has been waiting and planning for a long time now. They poke and prod at us, but have yet to fully destroy us. We know nothing about our enemy other then the fact they attacked the Castle Casren helped build up, the home of the Detente, and they stabbed me many more years ago. All we have are rings, and newspapers, and cameras and equipment. We know their symbol, we know they fight against us, and we know they have been secretive an patient. But that is about it".

Alex then looked towards Daemala, and asked "So, what is your opinion on all this?"