Marae had been rather wrapped up in her work as Freyr approached. She had stood to greet the rest of the team from the surface on their arrival, but had gotten right back to work immediately. She switched periodically between several holographic screens floating around her showing diagnostic data from their scans of the Object, the Cradle, and her own simulations. Currently, she seemed to be running an analysis comparing signals observed from the Object with those observed from the Cradle. 

“Hmm? Oh, yes, I put Sken’Brara on that.” Marae answered. Briefly, she brought one of the screens off to her side front and center and read through the data. “The object’s behavior is following projections for now. Sken is performing all of the analyses you requested, so the data should be available to you.”

Marae returned just as quickly to the screen she had been watching before, though the look she gave Freyr was notably uncomfortable. “Am I right that you want to observe this little ‘reunion’ between these objects from [i]inside[/i] the simulation? Are you quite sure that’s wise? We really don’t know what kind of solution this entity has in mind to fix your Cradle. What if its solution is to reset the whole simulation, [i]with[/i] you inside? I know my protocols are ready for field trials, but I want to stress that I don’t [i]know[/i] if they will work. Not at this early stage. What do you have to gain that you couldn’t get by observing from out here through automated sensors?”