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information download into her mind.
    “What is this?” she asked, startled.
    “Stay calm or you will lose the connection. The Anu have very little security at this level of consciousness. Their data banks are completely open.”
    Schematics of the ship burst through her brain, downloading into her mind as if it were downloading onto a computer. She felt herself filling with information she couldn’t comprehend. Images and ideas filled her, thousands a second until suddenly the last bits of information filled her mind and stopped.
    “Holy shit,” she said, breathless even in her astral body. She could feel the fatigue growing, weighing her down.
    “Come back to your body now,” Michael said, his voice tense. “They are coming.”
    She took a deep breath and felt her consciousness shoot down from the orbit of the planet, through the atmosphere, the sky, and the mountain, until it plopped back into her head.
    All at once she opened her eyes with a gasp. The entire group looked at her wide-eyed as they sat staring at her in the center of the room.
    “What?” she asked.
    “We’ve been out for about ten minutes. Your eyeballs were going crazy,” Cassie said, still sitting beside her. “What happened?”
    “I was inside the Anu ship, and I downloaded a ton of information into my brain. I can’t really make sense of it. Crap, I’m tired.”
    “The bombs have stopped,” Michael announced. The earth had stopped shaking and the booms from outside had come to a halt.
    “Are we safe?” one of the shifters asked. A child began to cry at the back of the room.
    “For now,” Michael told them.
    “All right, everyone,” Xavier started. “Back to your rooms. We’ll resume our normal schedule after we check the damage. For now, let’s everyone stay in your private chambers.”
    Magda hung back as the others filtered out of the meditation room. “What was that all about?” Cassie asked her, Circe standing right beside her.
    “I’ve got all this stuff in my head. It’s crazy. It was like it downloaded straight into my brain.”
    “I know what you’re talking about,” Circe said. “I’ve had it happen to me too.”
    “So have I,” Cassie said.
    “I can’t make sense of it yet, but I think it has something to do with the Anu ships and how they are built. Seriously, guys, I’m not an engineer or anything. I can’t make heads nor tails of it.”
    “Maybe you should talk to Emilia and Rafe. They might be able to find a way to help you categorize the data,” Cassie suggested.
    “That’s not a bad idea,” Magda agreed.
    After everyone else left the meditation room, they went to Emilia’s workshop and explained what was going on. Cassie left to find Rafe while Emilia thought about how she could download the information inside Magda’s head.
    “Sit in the terminal chair and we’ll put you into The Program. That way I’ll have direct access to your mind through the computer,” Emilia said.
    A few moments later, Rafe arrived and helped Emilia get Magda plugged into the terminal. She took a deep breath as she laid back with the terminal helmet securely strapped to her head. It had been a while since she’d entered The Program through a terminal and didn’t know what to expect.
    “All right, Magda, you’re ready to go,” Emilia said.
     
     

Chapter Fourteen
    Magda closed her eyes and waited for the terminal to help her descend through the vast levels of her mind. The descent happened quickly and she found herself in her starting room—the bedroom she had as a child before the war. It made her nostalgic for times past, but there was little time to waste.
    She opened her bedroom door and stepped out into the scene before her. It seemed as if she’d entered a vast warehouse of computers. Lights blinked on the rows and rows of massive hard drives. Walking down the center aisle, she looked left and right for some indication of how she might access the vast storehouse of information on the