4491 A.D.
The dispersed essence of what once had been the Changeling known as Odo rode the leading edge of a derecho as it swept across a dry and lifeless plain. Eons had elapsed since Odo mastered this, the most difficult of his people’s abilities. Altering his mass to take any individual form he desired had marked only the beginning of wisdom.
In the second millennium of his life, he had learned to scatter himself without losing control of his constituent atoms. The development of that skill had been a boon greater than anything he could previously have imagined. Instead of casting himself as a single stone, he could become a million motes of dust borne aloft on the arms of the wind, or diffuse his gelatinous form to reach every nook…
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