“Where is the one you called Hal?” they quizzed again. “I don't know” she responded. It had been weeks now since the disk had released her unharmed.

Marcus had been there the whole time, as if the object had perfectly timed it and was cognizant of his presence. It's shimmering black surface had changed to an ocean blue of shimmering waves, and then Jen emerged. She had resurfaced and floated right before his eye's. Her arms out stretched and legs together, naked and completely dry. He and the others retreived her from the top of the disk, wrapped her, and quickly put her on a stretcher and carried her away. She was asleep. Marcus then watched as the shimmering disk quickly fell apart like a large body of water flooding the cave. He dipped his finger into the pool of water that was once that strange object, it tasted like sea water.

“What was the last thing you remember?” the inquirer asked dryly again. By now they wanted to be rid of her, the inquiry lasted for weeks. Jen was all that was left of this enigma, only her testimony, and what she said she had experienced. This was of no interest to the scientists now, because nothing could be verified other than her words. No one could confirm if she really had the experiences or not. “Explain for us one more time what had happened to Hal?” a tape recorder whirled in the background, a camcorder sat perched off at a distance.

They wouldn't publish what Jen had said, because they knew all their credibility was at stake, and that their research funds and grants were at risk of being resinded. The object had gone, and Jen never went anywhere as far as the object was concerned because the other scientists never observed it leaving the cave. Jen's story was completely contrary to that, but they dared not mention it, partly to protect her, but mostly to save themselves. Here was a well respected doctor and scientist in the world who would have been branded a lunatics, mad, heretic, plain crazy or at best considered disturbed.

There was one unusual anonymaly though, Jen was a 46 year old woman, who had emerged from the disk now with the body of 16 year old teenage. She was completely clean of any and all disease and looked vibrate and young. After a few more tests. They let her go, there was nothing more to be had.

Jen had told them all she had experienced with Hal, and where he had taken her. But there was one secret she never told them, it was only something she could feel. For all their time together and their great mind connection and vast journey's across space and time, he never could understand her individuality, he was just the vastness, that was all.

Jen now sat on a hospital bed, her arms wrapped around the little bundle she held as she looked into its sparkling little eye's. “Hello Hal, now you can get to truly understand what it means to live life as a human being”.