They spent the remainder of that day, and the better part of the following one, working through Dr. Farr's accumulated research with the same careful, methodical patience Rohan had once applied to Renna's star chart — cross-referencing the survey team's final logs against Dr. Farr's own scattered, unverified accounts, searching for any pattern that might offer genuine guidance rather than simply compounding uncertainty.
"Every confirmed account of a boundary crossing," Dr. Farr explained, spreading a series of fragmentary historical records across her cluttered work surface, "shares certain common elements, however unreliable the individual sources. Preparation seems to matter considerably — travellers who approached a crossing with some form of established connection to the destination side fared measurably better than those who attempted it blind. You mentioned a token, given to you by the entity you call Hestia. Do you still possess it?"
