--- Tavon --- My head feels dizzy as I wake up to the sound of Baraka’s voice: “Understanding the Maia Spectrum is a lot like trying to comprehend how to use Imago. It takes a philosophical understanding to adjust your entire body to understanding tau as a part of you as an organism; your body is your mind and your mind is your body, like two halves of a whole that’s ever changing.” “It’s a whole lot of reading,” Raiko says. “I don’t get how reading words off a page is going to make me stronger.” “And you will,” Baraka replies absentmindedly. “There is something about the written word that influences a person’s perspective as well as their decisions. Some words have to be read in order to change you, and some that are not leave you less of a person.”—I hear the sound of a page being

