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"What we're doing, not even the most sophisticated, or sensitive Asylian instruments would be able to detect." Marlene said, raising her eyebrow as she watched the flame dance on the black sand before them. "But whatever puts your mind at ease, because this exercise will require just that."

She held her hands out to her side, resting the backs of her hand on her knees, palms up, fingers relaxed.

"Close your eyes, relax, and open your mind." Marlene instructed.

If Halena complied, she would find a strange tingling sensation wash over her entire body, before everything went white, it was as if she was physically in a plane of nothing but white as far as the eye could see, and the only thing that stood out was Marlene, who was wearing an entirely white outfit, and seemed to be glowing with an almost ethereal aura.

"Our physical bodies are still on the ship, but I've linked with your mind through a psychokinetic bridge." Marlene's lips didn't seem to move, and the words registered instantaneously, there was no processing lag that was a result of Asylian physiology.

Thousands of voices began to flit into the noise of the white 'realm' they were in, it could be described as people talking in a crowded room. It was the thoughts of the crew, but not their current thoughts, but past thoughts, future thoughts, and every possible thought that could move through their minds, it was all jammed together, like the static snow of a telvision.

The sensation of being punched in the gut rocked the realm, and Marlene's avatar rubbed her temples, White gave way to the errant energies of the warp, a maelstrom of overwhelming emotion from nearly an infinite angles, then visions. Reality itself collapsed, ten thousand times, in ten thousand ways, but then it didn't, hundreds of outcomes from a single event trillions of light years away flitted through like noise, but then it all stopped, there was white, and silence once more.

They would once again find themselves in the room, Marlene's eyes closed, but slowly opening.

"Lightning flashes, sparks shower; in one blink of an eye, you have missed seeing." Marlene's lips didn't move this time, being linked, she could speak directly to Halena telepathically, and Halena would likely quickly discover, the connection worked both ways.

Marlene cupped her hand over the candle, extinguishing the flame.

"The potential to master true understanding is in all of us, only through moments of clarity do I see it. Like you, I was not born with psionics, or a grasp of magic. The mind can be unlocked, through understanding the nature of all things. If you immediately know that the candlelight is fire; then the meal was cooked a long time ago."

Marlene smiled, and gazed to the candle between them.

"Take the first step."