The Ovemind Blows Rome's Mind, Part 2 of 4

Yesterday, Rome made contact with the Overmind of Earth and was pleasantly surprised to find out that her banishment had been rescinded two year earlier. The Overmind was surprisingly engaging but felt it necessary to give Rome information that she didn't realize she needed:

     Go ahead,” Rome thought with resignation. These Overminds so loved to pontificate.
     “Approximately five years before you were born, some surgeons had to perform an emergency resection of a woman giving birth. The child had some of the characteristics of what we now call the Onsira phenotype.”
     “How is this relevant?” Rome asked.
     “There appear to be two types of Onsiras,” the Overmind said. “The type like Sussen, they refer to themselves as the Reonhe. They must have some sort of split brain. They seem like they have the ability to be part of my samanda and what we now know to have been MASAL’s at the same time.”
     “And you never shared this before?” Rome asked.
     “I did not understand their nature at the time. They always seemed like loyal and obedient Vuduri to me. Their connection to me seemed standard,” said the Overmind. “I did not know they served two masters. I only came to learn this after you destroyed MASAL. I did know they were not healthy, though, even from the beginning.”
     “In what way are they not healthy?”
     “Their genetic structure makes them age twice as fast as a normal Vuduri.”
     “They do?” Rome asked.
     “Yes. You remember Estar?”
     “Of course,” Rome said. “How could I forget?”
     “She was only twelve years old when she went to Tabit.”
     “Wait! You knew Estar was an Onsira and yet you sent her to Tabit anyway?” Rome protested. “How could you?”
     “As I said, I did not understand who or what the Onsiras represented. Only that a recessive element of the 24th chromosome must be responsible for their condition. Estar volunteered for the position and I took pity upon her and allowed her her wish.”
     Rome hissed her disgust. “You said there were two types of Onsiras. What is the other type?”
     “They are called the Zengei. They are the ones with flat black eyes. You have met several of them. They do not appear to even have a mind of their own.”
     “Yes, I have seen them,” Rome said. “Go on.”
     “I did not know that MASAL was still alive and his century-long plan to convert mankind was beginning to gain traction. But I was concerned about the direction the recessive elements of the chromosome he designed might take the human race. I wanted to counteract it. So I had my scientists initiate a study of genetic overlap of the Vuduri to map backwards to a common ancestor. We were able to trace back to the closest living relatives to Hanry Ta Jihn that were among my communicants.”

Descendants of Jack Henry? Where do you think this little tidbit will lead?