> >"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."
> >
> >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. "
>
> 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."
>
Lasiter spoke up, "What would happen if the bond were to be broken to such
a subject? Actually, what would the effects be to both bonder and bonded?"
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