This short segment of fiction details the circumstances in which two of Seren Matten's crew joined up. This is the crew who form the central characters of the (currently) most developed storyline of the Unity Chronicles - Blind Obedience. It's set some 26 years after the formal establishment of the Varangian Alliance as opposition to the central Unity government.

A point of interest here is the reference to the mentalism performed in certain "Varangian clubs", where it's a new phenomenon. This comes out of the great leaps forward made in the understanding of the human brain and mind, brought about by the removal of Unity dogma surrounding certain areas of scientific research. An insight into the start of this process came in my previous short story, TUC: Research - found here [link] .