"Anyway, a Venasian Bond is pretty straight-forward. A VHB - sorry, that's short fo Venasian-Human Bond- well, it's kind of tricky. Of course, we've never had to study it before. As far as I can tell, the VHB is incomplete: it has the water and magnetic component, but is missing the telepathic component. It's like trying to dock with 3 mooring clamps instead of 4 - one is free. So, some information can be passed in either direction - the Bond-ed might be able to 'feel' what the Bond-er is feeling, or vice-versa... but it would be a remote feeling. That wouldn't happen with a normal Bond; you would be directly affected. Of course, there are degrees. Maybe you do get directly affected, but it's only when the emotion is especially strong."Hearing no questions, Lucas plowed on. "We haven't been able to tell what causes the different degrees of Bonding between a Venasian and non-Venasian, mostly because we don't have enough test subjects. There are hundreds, thousands of possible variables just with the Bond itself. Add onto that the Venasian open circulatory system, which is a highly different system than ours. Theoretically, a 'true' Bond between a human and a Venasian just isn't physiologically possible. However, this realignment of water and magnetic fields do seem to have a dampening effect on our subject's medical condition, which in this case is a degenerative neural disorder, while not actually affecting the normal function of the body's organs or systems. In fact, the Bond's completely halted the disease's progress. This isn't to say it's cured the disease; the disease is still there. It's just... frozen."
Lucas paused to catch his breath, and to see if they had any questions.
Lasiter looked around the room to see if there were any questions. This was mainly for their benefit. "
(response? questions?)
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