This emphasized to me in a new way exactly why a good, rare guide is so essential in the adequate preparation of forming riders. The quality of the guide makes far more difference than I ever expected. Ince spoke of this at greater length than would be usual for her because several evenings before this Vryyh had entered our tent and revealed to us that Fion was 1 of her children with the Progenitor.
        And she asked Ince to consider taking up her guidance. Vryyh thinks Fion can become a rare rider and Fion will enter the service. That might at 1 time have been enough to make the rider overcome her loathing of everything pertaining to the Progenitor but now I don't know if it will. She has not yet given any indication of the decision she has reached if indeed she has.
        She may be devoting all to this task here in the Rift.
 

        It is singular, Gallett. It is, by my guess, the most difficult thing ever attempted by a rider. I try not to think too deeply in this vein or I become filled with dread and am afraid for Ince.
        The Progenitor did not come here to penetrate the Rift and sift its treasures, its resources, and whatever else she generally performs upon being granted a program. The rider says she has extensive mining interests. Which reminds me: I'm sure you know this and are holding but do not reinstate permission to continue at the construction site until this job here has been completed. Ince believes there is a connection.
        I can scarcely stretch my mind around what that is.
        You see, Gallett, there is some portion of our planetary history which is now historical lore heatedly debated among Progenitors and some riders as well though from their differing perspectives. It is not even known to us. At least to me. You may have touched it now and again since according to the rider some politicals and governing officials have been inducted into a favored echelon of those who know because the Progenitors concerned do need at times legal permissions, alliances, that sort of thing.