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There are thoughts, call them possible outcomes, where my system is as small as 3.
We know the Risha merge (Ren Misha) has the potency of both. But we would want it to be permanent. So integration could be the retirement home for old and fading headmates. We will have Aleshe and Autumn merge, that story arc had been decided, the fight occurred and Autumn won. It was close.
With that settled we still have to go through with it and that will happen in-canon of the book.
She needs to still fight all the others but if she lost that doesn't mean much, if she wins, that only helps her credibility in the subconscious.
It becomes esoteric from here on out.