Rus sat down at the computer terminal as instructed. "This makes no sense. I need to talk to a real person." Rus looked around the room. He noticed an elderly man sitting at one of the terminals. Rus stood up to walk over to him. He halfway expected a voice telling him to sit back down, but heard no warning. Reluctantly walked over to the elderly man. Rus said, "Sir, could you help me."

The elderly man smiled and pointed to his terminal and punched in a few keys

The elderly man held up his hands and waved them back forth. Rus wasn't sure why. Then the elderly man spoke. "Yeah, these terminals can be confusing. But you are going to have to speak up..." The man shook his head and lipped no. "I could hardly hear you."

Rus reached down to the terminal and positioned the mouse over the text area. Before proceeding Rus signed okay with his fingers. The man nodded. Rus typed, "Michelle sphere. I don't think they can hear me."

The man typed, "But they can hear me."

Rus asked, "But they don't have the terminals watched or bugged."

The man typed, "They can only see what is on the terminals when they have been locked with key code scripts. The key code scripts strangle bandwidth so the Queen only allows that on occassion."

Suddenly the monitor started blinking. Everyone in the room moaned. A young woman looked over at Rus with an angry look in her eyes. "How in the heck can I finish my project with key code security in place."

The elderly man gave the woman a look and she started grinning. "I'm sorry I lost it for a second. With Jason Fougere placed under arrest, my project is meaningless anyway."

Rus said, "Jason has been arrested. I came here to warn him that his laser fusion designs have been stolen."

The woman started screaming, "Oh my God! My God. Who the hell are you young goat dude? You are responsible, aren't you."

Rus stammered, "No. Honest. No. How can I be responsible. I don't even know what is going on."

The elderly man looked at the woman and spoke her name. "Ellen!" Then he looked at the lights on the wall. "Stay calm people. Our compound is under attack from the government. No matter how crazy things get, we must remember that we are loyal subjects to the Queen." Then he looked back at Ellen. "I will give you three minutes to leave this area. I know what you just did and I know you did it intentionally. Get out of my sight now."

The woman, Ellen, cried, "I was only thinking of my daughter. I'm sorry."

The Elderly man gave Rus a piece of paper. Rus looked at the paper. "It is blank."

Then man said, "Know that a planet in one dimension may be invisible in another dimension, but doubt not the importance that planet holds to all dimensions." The elderly man then pointed to a door.

Rus opened the door. One moment there was a Cherry tree outside the door and the next moment there stood a Pine tree in the exact same spot. Rus tried to remember the trees that stood outside the compound before he entered. He didn't remember seeing a Cherry tree so to return from where he came, he exited at the moment he saw the Pine tree.