For a second, Rhiow froze, retreating into her mental workspace to spread a mess of calculations and hypotheses on the floor. Then she lashed her tail. "If she's a gate, where's the catenary? And how do you suggest we live here, some kind of contained pocket dimension-"

It sounded ridiculous when she said it aloud, but Rhiow would have to be stupid not to recognize that it was a decent hypothesis, no matter how insane it was. "It just doesn't seem likely."