In front of the command desk, Neith Comidava watched the countless super irritating notices.

NO RESULT!

ERROR!

WRONG SEARCH PARAMETERS!

Failed to set the scan limits correctly. Nor did the antenna alignment cause him any beneficial insight. The bright cocoon was as invisible and mysterious as it was 6 hours ago, 10 hours ago, a whole day ago...however long it had been since it started.

Neith was losing track of time, losing patience... she needed a break, a meal, a conference with the girls... She had started to send the holo-conference request when another message, bold red with an audible warning reminded her that she was outside the Intergalactic Network, separated from everything that was her life.

She was separated from friends, family, research, she had nothing else besides ORIN... Yeah, I could live peacefully without personally experiencing what ancestors were like, no network, no constant contact... super messed up!

Whispering walked past the platform to the bathroom when she was stunned to see the 4-sheet seal. I'm a nut! How could I forget that it has a bio-energy scan function! Good thing no one else sees such a lapse! I'd ruin my reputation!

Neith reinvigorated with optimism, she returned to the desk, cancelled all searches, cleared the design surfaces. She connected the ruby bracelet to the royal seal and waited.

"ORIN, get ready for multiple registration."

"Princess, it will probably take us a while to identify, from the entire record, the minute that the sub went off the main route. The last reset you did was about two years before you transferred to Central University. We probably need a few hours."

"Look for footage of the Chameleon ambassador's party last month. The family gathering is highlighted in the footage, very easy to find."

"I'm starting, it'll take a few minutes anyway, it's recommended a meal, a bath in between"

"Okay, okay, mommy ghost, I get it!"

Neith opened another drawer in the storage cupboard, took out two pink spheres and, turning them over, placed them next to the sealed body. Through contact with the astral projection the spheres transferred the stored energy to the outline strengthening it. It was an easy practical way of feeding but Neith missed the delicious tastes. I must take the time to invent flavours in energy form! I don't know why when I return to physical form I forget to research.

Resigned Neith turned to ORIN and the screens. Finally they found images of the glowing cocoon. The ones from the blast site and the first jump were blurry, she'd have to find out why... but now she was focused on the most recent ones. The landing, or more correctly, the appearance here.

Surprisingly, the energy imprint was in the royal archive, recorded by the first king with the note 'to be studied thoroughly for possible connection to the Heart Tree'.

Even more surprisingly, after the full unveiling of the capsule, a thin, symmetrically twisted yellow-green thread remained in the images. It linked the tip of the minisubmarine to a location lost in the sky.

"ORIN, load an auxiliary form into your bracelet." Neith approaches the hourglass with outstretched hand.

"Princess, this is an unknown area, better keep 2 with capsule in case of attack and transfer 4. In transparent form you are more vulnerable than usual." With the sounds of an hourglass flute sent 4 cones towards the ruby bracelet, entering it.

"Okay, after I get out I go into cloak mode.

*Don't follow me before I find out what's on the other end of the wire.

*Continue mapping the area.

*Try to find out why the first two moments are unclear. Maybe we can find our way home.

*We remain in permanent connection." With the last instructions given, exit through the capsule walls to the outside. Following the capsule's screen he found the wire, attached it to one of its links.

He couldn't wait to see what he would find and what the personal connection was. At full speed she began to follow him, leaving behind the capsule which in another flute tone became first transparent and then completely invisible.

Following the thread Neith Comidava realized that it was twisted into a conical spiral shape, with the tip at the life-saving capsule. Before he lost contact with the capsule's location sensors he had descended 20 IGU. He had no idea if he was even halfway there.

All he could do was keep spinning, holding on to the thread. For unknown reasons the position sensors could not attach to it. It could not shorten by cutting in a straight line. He couldn't send the minirelays forward, he had already tried but lost them almost immediately. The whole area had far too many mysteries to continue comfortably.

Because it was necessary to get to the end to find answers, Neith buttoned the bracelet, set the maximum limit at which the sensors worked and began to make repeated jumps. These consumed more energy from the bracelet's core but he had no other solution. He didn't want to go back without answers. After a dozen he decided to stop, to transfer energy from one of the additional ORIN forms.

When she stopped, suddenly, suddenly and without a trace of movement, a huge, transparent, luminous sphere appeared in front of her. I estimated that it was at least half the size of the University Metropolis.

The one-fingered atangand looked like rigid, cold metal, impossible to pass. Pointing the twisted antennae around his ears, cautiously touched with the tip of one. It looked like a curtain of water, warm as summer rain. Neith was stunned, she was stuck.

She touched it again with her fingers, again it felt like cold metal. She stuck the tip of her other antennae to the wall, again feeling warm rainwater.

It was the greatest scientific mystery she had ever encountered in her life. It was necessary, indeed essential, to collect samples of this unknown material. She tried to move a drop of liquid with the tip of her antenna, and with her fingers she picked up a fragment of material. Wow... I think I'm the first person in the Federation for whom both actions are possible simultaneously from the same sample. The only material case without contradictions. Wow... it'd be interesting to know what the rest of the Federation feels at the touch. I wonder if the Nebulanians could corrupt this material. Out of excitement, the princess had begun to analyze aloud. She was overwhelmed by such wonder.

Out of uncontrolled excitement she touched the wall with both antennae and unwittingly felt herself thrown. Instinctively she adjusted her position so that she could roll over on contact with the ground. Neith spun around, straightened up and stood with her mouth agape.

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The whole area was bathed in white, purple and violet rays. In front of it, two strings of nine-cornered glowing stars surrounded a centuries-old plane tree made of yellow light. It was a planet heart tree. Shocking! In an unknown corner of the Universe she managed to encounter a Heart Tree. It was more than luck, it was absurd luck! He ended up personally touching the third Heart Tree specimen.

Looking closer I see at the top of the crown a crouched silhouette. Levitating, Neith reached a higher branch and saw clearly that it was a young woman, curled up, asleep, protected as if in a basket by branches and covered in bright leaves.

Studying her oval face, Neith had another shock, the young woman resembled them completely. If she had antennae, big ears, purple hair, most people would mistake her for her. Sitting side by side, they would have looked like identical twins. It was incredible.

By touching one of the leaves with the tip of his antenna, he gets a firefly of energy. From him he learns that the young girl had arrived in the Light Field after an explosion on a planet in his sector.

The explosion occurred just as the Heart-Shaft was sending a pulse to the planet. The young girl's shaken, disoriented spirit was drawn into the corridor formed. It has been here ever since, cared for by the bio-energy of the Heart Tree.

Neith carefully moved the branches and leaves covering the young girl until she had completely uncovered her. Together her fingers formed a triangle, the tips lightly touching the center of her sternum. Breathing deeply she sent a sphere of pink light inside. Slowly it diffused into the young woman's astral projection. Seeing that it was helping, that the young woman was growing brighter, Neith continued.

When the pink colour evenly enveloped her entire silhouette, the princess formed a rhombus with her fingers, gently touching the middle of her forehead. A circle of light rose from the youth's outline, floating towards the princess's bracelet. After dissolving into ruby, her display scrolled images, sequences, moments. These were Neita Simonetta's experiences in her 25 years on Earth. Emotions, acquaintances, passions, talents, absolutely everything was stored in the princess's system.

First Neith learns that 25 Earth years were not as long as 25 Federal years. Comparing the volume of information, 1 federal year was about as long as 2 earth years. Looking at the astronomical data, as expected, he found nothing known. She sighed slightly as Neitta moved her fingers, opened her eyelids. Taking a deep breath, the princess smiled fondly.

"Welcome back! Child of this Universe. I am Neith Comidava, fourth Chameleonian princess, citizen of the Federation of Five Neighbors."

"Who are you?" Neitta sits up sleepily. She looked at the transparent silhouette of her Neith, the branches, the leaves of yellow light and startled, she began to tremble. "Who are you? What do you want? How did you get here? How did I get here?... Where is here?" With each question, Neita's voice became more shrill, more defensive.

"Child, be quiet! Stay calm! This is the Field of Light, the place where the Heart Tree exists. I couldn't find the name in your culture. I arrived here after following the trail left by a cocoon that took me from the site of an explosion. I was looking for answers, causes, not expecting to meet you." Neith tried to soothe her with a melodious, fairy-tale tone.

"Explosion? I was at the yacht party when there was an explosion." Neitta took a closer look at Neith- her face and saw the antennae, elephant-like ears and panicked again. "Aliens exist! Ghosts exist! You are one, stay there, don't come near me!" Neitta was trying to climb between the branches, to get away when she saw her transparent hands and suddenly fainted.

Neith watched Neita's face with a scientific curiosity, still amazed at the resemblance between them. She imagined the stunned expressions of her parents, her grandparents if they met her.

It would probably say something like 'The universe is full of mysteries, history is full of forgotten fragments. Surely there is a common past between you. It's not a coincidence. There's a clear reason why you have antennae, big ears and she doesn't. There's a purpose why the cocoon brought you here.'

Yeah there is a cause and a purpose but it takes time to find out what they are!

Neith reviewed the data on human society. It seemed a place full of the most absurd contradictions! So many administrative structures, so many separate data networks for one planet. So many institutions, and they didn't care for it properly. Totally absurd!

The Princess tried not to be distracted by fleeting thoughts... to stay focused only on the Heart-Tree. It was a unique opportunity to study by touching its branches, its leaves. To feel the rhythm of the pulsations, their intensity, the colors of the created Field of Light...

It has not yet been discovered how Heart Trees were created, how they allocated their areas to each other. How they managed to communicate instantaneously, despite intergalactic distances, was the most studied feature since the beginning of the war with the Nebulae. So far, no conclusive results have been found.

Neith has been wondering since he found out in his first year of school that the entire Federation has 2 Heart Trees how they allocate their sector to oversee between them. If they are identical why one of them records, keeps track of events from two galaxies and the other from one, why they didn't divide the area equally. One of her research goals is to find out why.

Surveying around the Heart-Tree Neith realized that it was not identical to the other two in the Federation. Here the Domain of Light was enclosed, separated from outer space. Looking closely at the colours, she noticed a few streaks of black mixed in. Cautiously she approached them, touched them with her antennae, felt a pleasant coolness. Feeling the bracelet she began to study it in detail.

Photographing, recording, analyzing Neith lost track of time and when she heard movement next to her she flinched.

"Have we died and turned into ghosts?" Neitta almost whispered in a trembling voice.

"No, we're not dead, we're as alive as can be! Both are in the first bioenergetic form, astral projection." Neith's voice was slow, hoping to avoid another faint.

"How did I not die? If we're alive why don't we have a body? And why do you look like me but have big ears and big ears?" Neitta began to stir again, levitating around Neitha.

"Child, I repeat, we are in astral projection form. It is the first bioenergetic form that any living organism in the Universe can use. I don't know why we're identical, but I'm gonna find out!"

"I was at a party on Claudia's yacht, I heard a BOOM, I felt thrown..., I got dizzy when I hit the water... trying to get to the air I saw a lane, a purple so beautiful I headed for it. I went through a curtain, started sliding in circles, got dizzy, fell asleep... When I woke up you were next to me. If I'm alive, how do I get home? What's the way back?" Neitta tried to remain calm, to analyze the events logically.

"Oh, child, my dear, don't you know how to get home from here?" With arched brow Neith stared at her.

"No, I don't know, when I try to remember I just feel serenity.... To be completely honest, when I woke up I was trying to find my way home. Besides a lot of serenity, I was overwhelmed by an immense curiosity. You see these wires sticking out of the crown of the tree? Any idea where they lead? I want to find out!" Neitta showed countless twisted wires in two colours coming off the branches, the leaves and disappearing into the distance.

Neith looked reassured, she knew there were places connected to the Heart-Tree.

"Then you can't go back, just keep going. In the Field of Light you cannot stay! You can follow any of the threads, or go separately. Either way your heart desires. There is no fixed rule!" Neith brings her right palm close to Neith's left shoulder and transfers a yellow orb that dissolves into Neith's projection.

"What are you doing... Oh how cozy! What is it?" Neitta's eyes went wide, glowing, like she was tasting Swiss chocolate.

"It is my gift, a strengthening energy sphere. It will increase your speed to your next destination, making up for the break you took here."

Neitta gave her a long, grateful hug.

"Thank you very much! Too bad there isn't time to get to know you better, to learn about your world, to tell you about mine."

"Child I learned the experiences of 25 years of life from the circle of information I received when I woke you up. You may end up in the Federation of Five Neighbors or even the Chameleon Kingdom. It depends entirely on the strength of your will and curiosity. ' In turn Neith embraced her, circling her head with his ears and touching her crest with his antennae.

"Super cool! I'll give it a try! Farewell, visitor from the departures!" Neitta broke away from the embrace, waved and walked away following a bunch of colorful ribbons.

Neith stared at her until she disappeared into the sky, then opened her left hand, in which a blue triangle glimmered. It was the bioenergetic code, the key to mastering the physical body. From one corner a yellow-green thread unfurled on the opposite side. He rubbed the triangle against the surface of the bracelet until he managed to integrate it completely and the thread unravelled from one side of the bracelet.

"Child I wish you much joy in your new journey! If you have enough perseverance you will end up in Chameleon and we will meet again. Then I will reward you for this key and the opportunity to experience your former world."

Bowing to the Heart-Tree she continues in a resounding voice "I, the fourth princess, Neith Comidava, thank you for the experience! It is an honor! I will find out the reason and purpose of these events! I will help the Creator Source in any way I can! I hope I can return to this unique Light Field!"

After another bow he departed from the Heart-Tree. When he reached the edge wall, he turned to look and recorded this area for the last time. It was a wonder! Crossing the curtain, he didn't stop, continuing straight ahead, following the thread to Neita's body. More correctly now it was hers because she had the key code to enter.