" McKie sensed her thoughts, her reactions. Jedrik: ‘You cast your sperm upon the stream of time.’ McKie: ‘You enclose and nurture . . .’ ‘I cast/I nurture.’ It was as though they looked at an object from opposite sides, aware belatedly that they both examined the same thing. ‘We cast/we, nurture.’ Obscuring layers folded away and McKie found himself in Jedrik's mind, she in his. Their thoughts were one entity. "

― Frank Herbert , The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)