"A communicator...that will connect audio or digital signals between dimensional planes?" Adem frowned, whispering to Ozzy. "They're joking, right?"
Ozzy shrugged, looking at him.
"I mean....we don't even have tech THAT powerful or complex on my home world....don't tell me that they've built it within a few hours..."
"I don't know..." Ozzy sighed. "...let them believe what they want...we'll find out when we get there..."
"Still..." Adem shook his head.
"Ah, yes....I was afraid of that..." Tayden sighed, flipping a few pages.
"Tayden?" Danny asked, turning away from Grissom.
The sunlight bathed the gathered metahumans, as the entire assemblage stood waiting along the wide, circular parking compound.
"There seems to be no Ankorajah Gravitas attachment to this spell...." he explained, his lips curling in concentration, as his vivid eyes scanned the imprinted black text.
"Meaning?" Sam asked.
"Meaning....there's no return value in these equations..."
"I'm sorry....'equations'? What are you talking about, Tayden?" Raptor peered over his shoulder at the pages.
"Oh, well, sorcery....magic...the supernatural....whatever you want to call it...it's all just higher-plain mathematics, you see. Algebra of the gods, as it were." the ex-angel shrugged. "Originally The One created sorcery as a sort-of 'Service Entrance' to the backdoors of reality. Harmonic keys set within sixty-six consecutive plains of existence, allowing breaches to be made between dimensional walls, without having to go through the irritating divine bureacracy of The Courts, and that sort of thing...."
Ozzy glanced over at Adem.
"...does my head look like it's about to explode? Cause' it feels like it..." he drolled sarcastically to the alien, before turning back to the conversation at hand.
Adem continued to stare at his head with interest.
"What's your point, Tayden?" Danny asked.
"Simply? This will get you where you want to go...." he explained. "....but, the equation that would give you a return path is.....missing. Curious, that..."
"We were prepared for that contingency already." Sam announced. "It changes nothing."
"Agreed." Raptor nodded.
Tayden took a deep sigh, even as his smile broadened from it's usual gleam.
"...magnificient bastards...all of you..." he chuckled, returning to his reading.
"Let's go." Danny said.
Tayden looked back up.
"I'm working on it..." he sighed. "...you do realize that this is a very complex set of equations, right? I mean, it will take me about an hour to effect the transition matrix....go drink some coffee, or something..."
"An hour?!" Danny exclaimed. "Why didn't you say that in the first place?"
Tayden cocked an eye up from the pages.
"I'm sorry? Were you talking? I was attempting to calibrate a dimensional breach? Nothing important, mind you. Did you want to bitch about something?"
Danny just sighed.
"Fine...okay...." he said. "...everyone...we have one hour to prepare for the journey..."
