"Our captor...Or savior and recruiter as she would prefer to be known...Is the Thinking Machine known as Stacy. According to what we have been told by her and her allies, we were plucked from our home universes as they were devoured by the Ohm." When she mentioned Duncan, a spike shot through her heart. She thought she'd left those feelings behind a long time ago, but they came up to the fore like a Spice-blow. "If Duncan Idaho is here, he has not been removed from his pod. There are only three others from our universe here and awake, besides the two of us."