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Vacit was a normal," she said, "not a teep. Michael, he's the Vorlon."

Vacit smiled thinly. "A Vorlon I'm not. But please, can't we sit? I weary
easily these days."

***

The buildings scintillated. Vague, slow patterns of colour formed, melted,
moved. They were like the Vorlon ships Garibaldi had seen, organic and
somehow alive. Vacit led Garibaldi and Lyta in the largest dome -- Garibaldi
left two men at the door and sent out the rest on a perimeter watch.
Likewise, Lyta's telepaths wandered around restlessly, scanning for other
presences.

Inside, the living nature of the structures was even more pronounced.
Chairs, tables, and couches formed from the Vorlon stuff furnished it.

"It took me some time to learn how to make this material conform to my
wishes," Vacit explained. "For a long time, the best I could get were some
toadstool-shaped lumps."

"I thought you said the base was destroyed," Garibaldi said. "Where did
these domes come from?"

"They {/grew/}," Vacit replied. "In reaction to my presence, I think." He
gestured around the room. "Please, sit. I'll start from the beginning, or as
near as I can." He looked hard at Lyta. "I {/am/} Kevin Vacit," he insisted.
"I was born around 2109, I'm not sure of the exact date. My mother was one of
the first real telepaths. I watched -- and felt -- her die in one of the
early programs. As an adult I was an aide to Senator Lee Crawford, who
organized the Metasensory Regulatory Agency, which later -- much later --
became Psi Corps. In time, I became director of Psi Corps. As Lyta observes,
in those days the director was supposed to be a normal. I posed as one,
because I had the power to do so."

"No," Lyta said. "He's lying. No telepath is that power. Even I'm not."

Vacit shrugged. "I am, or was. I'm not sure why. But part of it -- part of
it is something my mother passed on to me. It's what you sense, Lyta. Part of
a Vorlon, one of the two who came to Earth to implant their modifications in
our ancestors. The Shadows found him, you see. But before he died."

"Something similar happened on B5," Lyta said. "Kosh hid his essence in
Sheridan. But only for a short time."

Vacit nodded. "So you understand. My mother had a fragment of Vorlon in her,
just so. I was very young when my mother passed him to me. I developed with
him in me -- we were never separate entities, really. I never had two voices,
only one, a fusion of Vorlon and Human. Later in life, I met the second
Vorlon and learned the truth about myself. And about other things -- the