<div class="floatright">(http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j88/zavaelduauram/xiaoxing_zpsbd0449ef.jpg)</div>Xiaoxing nods slowly, letting this sink in.  "When you say 'we'," she said, glancing from Valerie to the new face Mika and back again, "do you know if that means an individual is not unique within their own... caste mark, you said?  And are there any clues as to<em>why</em>this has been happening?  Or even what the Unconquered Sun is?"<br/><br/>Questions questions questions.  The curiosity evinced in her voice is underlaid with a certain serious urgency, though.