"You look like you've been through Mechschnell. You know, the bad guy's place in those Danger Service vids the Thordes like so much."

Cev chuckled. Danger Service had its actors fighting evil slavers and enduring all sorts of upheavals to do it. Treaties that were written and approved in hours to defeat a sudden threat. Men who woke from severe head injuries and climbed tall buildings to sneak in and steal documents from wooden desks. On Elshar Mashai! A world that lacks trees. No wood. No papers. Elshar Mashai was portrayed much like Earth in earlier times. Thordes loved Earthan video.

"Ah, if your training were such, Oahsah, I would have to endure a blow, then climb a tall tree and drink fostok before leaping into a helicopter! In Mechschnell, Forbidn would insert terminals to make me evil and wish to conquer the Thirteen. And I would. In thirty mins.

"But, in the last thirty mins, Diplomat Sertin would find a way to change the progs in the terminals, and I would sway the Thirteen to fight Forbidn. I would have nae mind pain.

"O, and I would find my wife in those last thirty mins. Of course, I meet her, a skilled diplomat, while my evil terminals cause me to negotiate a treaty to destroy Earth! Diplomat Sertin convinces her to help him change my programming. Oahsah, why did you nae provide me romance, in my test?" He sighed.

—Second MarKu, an unpublished story, where Cevit Ion, a skilled Elshar Zheien diplomat, becomes emperor of the now-unified Thirteen Galaxies. Oahsah has just devised training for diplomats with tasks like memorizing treaties and having to recite them while intoxicated. They can't show it, and they are supervised by a healer to insure they aren't harmed by the training. It's much harder for the Zheien, who never intoxicate themselves under any circumstances! But Oahsah's training saved lives, so Cevit Ion also participated as an example to his men. On his respite where he's recovering from his last mission and has mind pain [we'd call it a migraine]. Poor Cev!