Lime awoke to strange sounds of wind blowing outside. She floundered around,hearing squirrels scrambling around on the roof. She missed her sister Sunny and mostly her mother,Rose. Lime checked the Nunera System of the Four Sisters. Rose and Snowflake were in it! "PERFECT TIMING!" She slipped out of her body and into the virtual world of the Simulated-Non-Actual-Reality-Experience. She spotted Rose and Snowy right of in a 'Prison bubble'. She didn't want to see that.. She tried to contact them or break the bubble to no avail. The system identified them as breaking some secrecy rule and was holding them. Rose was telling her something, but she couldn't hear it. After some trail, she stumbled to two things. Rose could hear HER, but not vice versa! Second,Snowy had TWO EYES! Lime had to ask SOMEONE what was going on. Lime shouted,"LADY NUNERA! I need HELP! EMERGENCY! HELP ME!" The lady of the system appeared before her.,"Yes,my child? How might I aid you?" Lime shouted,"Get my mother and Snowy the HELL out of that thing! RIGHT NOW!" The lady said calmly,"Rose has violated the Secrecy Act concerning this project and must be held until either the Project Director or Emergency Coordinator responds to my pleas for intervention. Snowflake's imprisonment is my fault. I took all normal blocking protocols but did not realize that they could communicate with RADIO WAVES! No one had used that for millions of years." Lime thought for some moments while Rose was signalling her to flee. Lime asked,"You DO realize that it has been over FOUR MILLION YEARS since this system was built? That there are NO LIVING BEINGS that will respond to your requests for intervention! You'll keep my mother and older sister here FOREVER? LIKE HELL! What can I do personally to free them? WOULD anoter person attuning to one of the Four Sisters Effectors do that?" The lady said,"All effectors are accounted for. If one was un-attuned, then Yes. The Probability line twist of of attunement would break the situation. However the Project Director still exists and the Emergency Coordinator is on the same planet you are and is still very much still alive. She is the last living member of the project who is." Lime said,"FINE! I will wait ONE HOUR for their response. That's one and a half days subjective time. When I return, IF my mother and Snowy are still held here against their will, I will REMOVE MY EFFECTOR IMMEDIATELY! There will be no discussion about it!" The lady looked shocked and alarmed,"DO NOT COMMIT SUICIDE FOR THEM!" Lime smiled. "I don't plan to. I know all about the 'out of the Four Sisters upon madness and death' clause. There is one OTHER WAY. Toxic taught me. Sever the limb where the Effector is at in the LIMB IN QUESTION! She bit off her own FINGER to sever the Ring of Fire! My Effector is around my left wrist. I have a mono-filament blade in my Hyperspace-Storage-Device. If I have to sever my arm below the elbow and give the effector and have her shove my arm into the fire-place to sear my stump shut to save me, IN ONE HOUR I WILL DO EXACTLY THAT! YOU JUST WATCH ME!" The Lady said sadly,"I COULD imprison you with them. However you are on a primitive planet without medical care. You would die within a week of local time. That would be capitol murder. Lime, you are my personal favorite. You went to the BONEYARD! In 4,325,521 years of this system's function, NOONE had ever been able to find the doorway there! You are SO special! Please do NOT do this thing!" Lime shouted,"YOU DON'T GET IT! SHE IS MY MOTHER! I'll be back in an HOUR. Free her or lose me forever!" Lime looked at Rose with tears in her eyes and vanished out of the Nunera System. Lime shouted,"NEON! NEON! EMERGENCY!" After a moment, Neon padded in."What the hell?" "Neon. Build a fire. I might have to sever my left arm. While you do that, I'll explain." Neon was shocked but built a fire in the fireplace. --TO BE CONTINUED!--