"Then we have succeeded."
"In a sense. To carry this concept over was most difficult. As long as we have their consent, everything will work out in time."
"You have succeeded in convincing them that the Opposites must be used?"
Toralen Ki smiled. "The Opposites we picked are violent enemies."
"Good!"
"It could be better. I'd hoped that they would be mere opposing personalities. It is not necessary that people of opposite personality be bitter rivals for everything."
"But the greater the opposing forces, the greater the strength of the mental field."
"In this case," said Toralen Ki thoughtfully, "they insist upon including a third party, of equal rank, to act as referee, or mediator. It will be his task to keep the Opposites from fighting one another."
"They were quite concerned?"
"Definitely. It was most difficult to convey to them the fact that the future of their—and all, for that matter—race depends upon absolute co-operation between the mental opposites we have picked."