I didn't know things lived in that place until that night. When they tried to break out, they caused a chain reaction that sent my computers wild. I s...ved the information to the memory banks and quickly closed the portal. You were created shortly after. Yet I'm still not sure exactly what gave you life. My own attempt to recreate the process was Igor. I used the information in the computer again, when I made your new body. But now, with that info gone, I can't even build you another male. The cave was small – tiny, actually – barely allowing enough headroom for him to sit. As he looked around again, he spied his saddle bags up against the wall beside a stack of firewood, and realised he was sitting on a contraption made of wood and his cloak – a sledge, of sorts. It triggered his memory, and he gasped. The wolves, being thrown from his horse ... where was Leliana?As if thinking her name was some sort of magic, she appeared in the entrance to the cave, her sodden red hair. 'I can't think with her here!' he realized frantically. 'She'll make me forget anything I try to figure out. I've got to get away!'He remembered that he always kept his flyer equipped for backpacking. There was a tent, a bedroll and canned supplies for several days. He took the stairs down two and three at a time, jumping over the final railing. Opening what looked like a closet door under the stairwell, he trotted down the next set of stairs into the underground garage where he kept his. And the Orion we’ll use to move it wasn’t either. We don’t have to tell them anything.”“Is that wise, given the current environment on the Hill?” Tamara asked.I shrugged. “I’m not sure I care.”I recognized the emissary from the Chinese embassy, even though I had only seen her once many years before in Hong Kong. I stood up and moved to shake her extended hand as Tamara closed the door on my temporary office in Washington. I was really growing to hate the town.“Thank you for agreeing to meet.