and the two became one. The white light disappeared. Sitting now on top of the cabinet was a sapphire blue pyramid, three feet tall, glowing with no discernible light source. Approximately one third of the way down from the top, miniscule silver lights formed a band one inch in height, flashing in an apparently random fashion. Symbols were etched into the pyramid’s base, the same ones Mariah had seen on the huge wooden columns that fronted the temple of Shen’dalah in her dream of the Kana Gidrol. I see you recognize this thing, Mariah sent to Aleris, watching her stare at the object in undisguised joy. Her thoughts came to Mariah hurriedly. It is, undoubtedly, a holographic information unit, though dissimilar to those on our world. If we ever doubted—although we did not—we now are more convinced you are the one prophesied in Netsor’ah thought long destroyed by our government. We will gladly explain all to you, but haste is critical.
