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Latency

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First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 44 (22)

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What you know

Book 1: Intervention

Ch 44Everyone is latent to some degree, varying by power; there is no hard line between latency and operancy, and training only helps those with strong latencies.

Book 3: Diamond Mask

Ch 4Dr. Crawford thinks Dee will probably never attain operancy; regeneration cannot make latent brains operant.

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