That was right—this was the "Magneto-Light" Ronan had once tried to capture and imitate, yet repeatedly failed to reproduce!
It emerged beyond Mica's primary form, yet within the domain controlled by the Manipulation Thread—but there was really no difference between the two, because these short-lived little things swiftly latched onto the most stable channels of interference within all the surrounding structures and rapidly established connections.
And so, the ever-growing Magneto-Light, in a pulse-like form, flowed back through the Manipulation Thread and into Mica's main body.
Ronan was still repeating the thought from earlier: "Maybe this is the Magneto-Light of Magneto-Optical Mica..."
Before the thought could settle, a new force arose within Mica's vapor form, and Ronan himself became the one affected.
This time, it was impossible to say whether Ronan had captured the Magneto-Light, whether the Magneto-Light had stuck to him, or whether it was sensory feedback conveyed by the deeply merged Mica.
Hmm, something seemed a little off?
It was precisely because of Magneto-Light's strange force that Ronan suddenly realized that the two systems he had believed to be fully fused—Mica and the false body—though both water-vapor structures and physically indistinguishable from one another, still had a faint barrier between them at a deeper level...
As for what it was, that no longer mattered.
The instant Magneto-Light's force manifested, that barely perceptible barrier vanished outright, and the two systems completely "docked" together.
Ronan's thoughts abruptly blurred, and then he discovered that the structure which had previously served as Mica's "battery"—the false water-vapor body's sole remaining function—had been completely Dissociated. Or rather, it had been completely absorbed by Mica's structure.
Now, only the most essential thing remained: the imprint of Ronan's consciousness, drifting within Mica's structure, on the verge of merging but not quite merged.
This change did Ronan no