This story is set in the universe of The Nature of Predators by SpacePaladin15. It features color coding that may annoy some readers. Vratzol would have been happy about reuniting with his old classmate, if Bleach wasn’t also deadset to prove that the Founding was a mistake.But he can’t leave alone the misconceptions of his herdmate, a relationship that seems involuntary on the ends of both the people that could stop it at any time, or else he would deny his right and ability to live out the universally attested wisdom that “one walks into the perfect herd by stepping as if it is already there”.So he has to fight the outlandish, and often blasphemous or hubristic ideas that it picked up. To Bleach, the ‘salvation’ of galactic society was the halt of evolution, the final defeat in the cycle of adaptation against all threats, routing of the very idea and purpose of sapience…and a purpose that would be so easy to restore, if the right ideas were taken to heart.Recent events show an opportunity for Vratzol to prove their merits, that providence did bring correction to the galaxy, and continues to, no matter how challenging.But reality can't match up to either of their expectations, and they are left to watch the peeling of their convictions apart in its wake.