She glanced at the frond desk, which was now vacated. Nervously, she pushed her way into the hotel, and approached the front desk, butterflies swarmin... in her stomach."Hello, howcanIhelpyou?" Came the rehearsed line of the rather bored looking desk clerk. Katherine looked down at him, and for a moment, wished that she'd worn flats so that she didn't stick out as much."I'm here to see Mr. Stirling. He should have left a key for me." She improvised, hoping that the clerk would be as inattentive. Spencer!Her mind once again screams to make sense of all this.“Relax, my child,” that same voice says. “I am here and I will care for you.”What about Spencer?“He is of no consequence anymore. Your destiny lies within you here and now. You must grab hold of it and rise to your true self.”Who are you?“My name is Typheryian,” the voice says. “Now rise, my child. Rise!”Samantha feels tightness in her shoulders. Her skin starts to tear, sending pain searing through her. The sound of bones crunching. ”“Thanks, sir.”“ ... and Denisons, your dramatic exits from your class will be overlooked; you were protecting your cousin.”“Thank you, sir.” they responded.“Ayame, all I can say is that I’m sorry for your experience. Are you sure you’re okay coming back to school today? If you need to, you can take a day—or more—off if you need it. I just want to be sure you’re feeling all right; sometimes people having your experience may feel the onset of shock some time after the event, so if you begin to. And, since we were putting grav grids everywhere, we could keep going down as far as we wanted. Transporter pads in convenient places would make getting around fairly easy. If we went down so far that we came out the other side, well, we could do the same thing anywhere else in the Womb. It would be a long time before we ran out of space.These tunnels would start out pretty bare, but as we built up our infrastructure we would have more and more equipment available for the neighborhoods to use..