- First our introduction, I'm Llanfil and he's my husband, Ausas. It's a pleasure to meet you.

I mechanically shook their offered hands, my work's habit kicked in smoothly, just like that was a normal meeting.

- For your second question, about our location, I suppose a more broad explanation is needed first. 'Sas, honey, if you please?

She got up from her seat and suddenly the sari she was wearing was replaced by a sleek suit. Also a screen appeared in mid-air maybe hinting to a presentation's beginning. And sure I wasn't disappointed by it's content.

The screen displayed an image of a huge star and a lonely planet in its orbit, and far away, proportion were difficult to judge, an almost perfect circle of debris surrounded the system.  

- This is a representation of the star system we're now. As you can see there's a huge asteroid belt that surround it, that's the starting point. From there all the avatar, that obtain a tested matrix, are shipped here. 

- That was your space trip. 

- Thanks love. Like he said, what you perceived was your avatar's shipping trip to this planet. During that time you already saw a great portion of the surface, here you can see the rest.

The screen zoomed on the planet's image and, when it started slowly to spin, I was able to see the hidden face and the rest of the landmasses and oceans. Then the image stopped on a portion of the ocean and started to zoom on a group of island in the middle of it.

- That's the broad part, now, to be more precise, the bigger island is where you landed. As you noticed the "Temple of the Beginnings" is placed at its center, the temple is the welcoming structure for all the avatars. It's supposed to house a guardian that should brief the participants on their situation. But, as you saw, it's not what happened to you.

The image changed again, that time it was a 3d representation of an ocean's depths. An irregular shaped trench opened in the sea bed.

- After your encounter with the locals, I really hope you don't judge all of them by the action of that few, you started the descent in this abyss. That's where we found your avatar, Ausas was swimming when he sensed a presence, we took you in our home even if it meant severing the connection to the system.

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- You're obviously free to believe it or not, and I think you will eventually found the next information even harder to believe, but we can't lie.

I was almost happy to finally found some people willing to explain, but many more doubts were budding because of them. And when I tried asking more question she interrupted me.

- I know you want to ask many questions, but please wait until the end. I hope many will be answered during my explanation, and like this it's far more efficient. 

- Normally when an avatar die the matrix is recycled into a copy of the same avatar, but that happens only inside the system domain. You managed to die outside of it, because your "little" immersion took you inside our place. That's were we are now Ausas original home, well now we live here together so it's also my place.

- Then, to finally answer the meaning of the business part, when we took your body we discovered your matrix was still inside, and functional albeit unconscious. You aren't the first one to be trow into this trench, or the first intact mind, what differentiate you is the fact that your matrix is from outside this system. A thing that we believed impossible or at least improbable.

We are still ecstatic for the discovery, but the joy made us blind to our blunder. To further analize, and trying to repair your avatar, we gained access to your memories. We believe the fact that you were believing yourself dead, and the indexing already done to the data, thinned the barrier that should have prevented that breach.

We gained an unbelievable amount of new information, everything you ever knew, but when we absorbed the cultural and emotional part we found out the offence we made.