wyk: (staring incredulously at the screen) its just the hologram shutting down. the thing is, that noone has been able to shut it down in recorded memory. its always been a legend, this planet, a map to the home of the high ones. mer must have actually located it! you'd never know from looking at her that she was capable of finding what 1000's of valiant explorers before her have come here and failed to find.

ikon: uh neto...we are picking up kaichak and terran signatures in the warp fields. i'm activating the cloak on flo er beta. she'll be invisible as long as she doesnt try to put any elvish crystal online. which she for sure will.

nova: mer is ok. she's actually done an interesting job coding flo. renamed it beta. what an interesting natural navigator. i can still cloak her even if she puts elvish shards online. thing is, she'll spot something is up.

neto: well she better think quick because kaichak don't fuck around. they'll slice her for that map. actually, she'd probably teach them a thing or two about stealing and trickery.

solarion: sindavathar resonances have been swarming the shards. there's a veritable convergence of the high elvish out there. everyone chasing a little mermaid pirate from earth. how interesting.

neto: sol..perhaps its time for you to grant us sanctuary. we need a safe place to help deal with situation and to formulate how we are going to slip away undetected to track down the actual telerin homeworld. we need to access your shard banks. we need assylum.

wyk: forget it humans. its bad enough that we have to consort with you to uncover our own history.

neto: (with a stare that would melt stone) look you prickly little brat. you sound worse than the mer. listen to what you just said. think about how far you would have gotten without ikon and i to do yr dirty work. and i mean dirty. mudplanets and machine grease from aeons gone by. the least you could do is admit that you have needed us to get this far and now..we all work together. (looks at sol). straight up sol, you'll never find the mer thru the cloak without me and ikon. im not trying to bribe or bl;ackmail here. i want to solve this thing. i have my reasons. you have yours. take us to the hyperbrary. and as for you wyk, maybe you ought to consider that someday, unless you develop a different attitude about yourself and others, elves wont be the most evolved race in the galaxy. me and ikon are the new elves, taught by the best, better than you have known yourselves, your heroes were my teachers. elves loved my mother. i want to find her and this is part of that quest.

wyk: hmf. humans. so emotional.

neto: look. fuck you basically. but really, i dont mean that except in that i think you are arrogant and ignorant. you and solarion dont even know whats going on any more than i do. difference is you have a waaaay bigger archive to root around in. now are ikon and i gonna get access or what.?

solarion: so be it

wyk: what?!

neto: i thought you liked us anyways.

wyk: not enough to endanger our planet with human presence. if any terran ships come chasing you down in our space we'll be exiled. ours is a secret world. secrets are not kept well by humans.

neto: its your choice elves. but we gotta reel in the mer before she breaks free of nova's control.