"Did you have any luck, Lina?" Avistra asked the older elfess staring at the computer screen on her desk.

"I found only one file on it, but the information in that file is critical. It indicates the talisman will have to be activated within the hyperplane."

"Hyperplane" Vistra echoed. "That must be a decoy file that Golmad's ministry planted in the archives." Lina shook her head.

"It isn't. I had to do quite a bit of digging to find it. They did apparently try to remove all of the information about the talisman, but they didn't remove all of it."

"So this so-called 'hyperplane' is real?" Lina nodded her head. "How do you even get someone in there?" Avistra asked.

"That is the big challenge" she said. "Nearly all beings with light-based vision only have the neurological hardware to create three-dimensional images from light that reaches their eye. But the hyperplane has eight dimensions, and normal individuals for all practical purposes will be blind moving around in it."

"So how do we find someone who can go there?"

"I'm getting to that" Lina replied. "That human whose seed with which you conceived your baby, who is he?"

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"I don't know any more about him than you do. Did you ask Kaitlyn? She's the one that got that little donation for me."

"I haven't seen her in a while. Perhaps she was stolen by the reptilia on the raid of Latildra University?" Avistra just stood for a brief moment, not saying anything about that.

"How do you know about that?" Avistra asked.

"That's what Golmad's guys seem to think. They talk to me and share things that Geer probably wishes they wouldn't share."

"Well, then what's the next step?" Avistra asked her putting her thoughts on the backburner. Lina stopped typing on her keyboard for moment and turned to look at her.

"That human has an extraordinary neurotype, even more so than we thought. I suspect he is one who can enter the hyperplane. Get him here and I'll scan his brain to see if he has the right kind of visual cortex. Then if he does, we'll have to find some way to trick him into activating it for us."

"That will be the easy part" Lina said. "There's not a human that doesn't have a button somewhere you can push to make them do what you want..."

"Well, all right" Lina said not sounding overly convinced. "That will just leave the biggest hurdle of all. Getting the talisman itself."

"That one will take care of itself soon I have a feeling."

"You really think so?" Lina asked.

"Yes. The Battle at Latildra just showed how risky putting the security of outworld over the security of the Elven sector is."

"Just so we're clear, Avistra, I'm taking a risk doing all of this for you. If you do become princess, I'm going to want something in return.

"You will continue to run the Humanology Lab, Lina. And I will let you change the policies and procedures of the lab to put the focus back on science and not just running a human hospital."