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and I can submit up to four candidates.”  He held up his hand as they both opened their mouths to respond.  “Don’t give me your answer yet, I would like you to consider it carefully.  There are both pros and cons to this opportunity.  If you are accepted to join the expedition you will be completely out of contact with your family, friends and the university for four to six months.  On the upside you will be provided with room and board and receive a weekly stipend of one hundred and fifty crowns.  You will also be eligible for a position with the IDAD research division depending on your contribution to the expedition after graduation.  This also will count highly toward any post graduate work you may pursue in the future here at Wonstrowd.
    I will have more information later, come and see me in my office day after tomorrow and let me know your decision.”
    The professor gathered up several papers and placed them carefully in his valise, as he snapped the clasp shut he bid them good evening and departed the lab.
    “Holy Elio!” exclaimed Ava.  “ We’re talking first hand looks at new artifacts maybe even ancient writings.  Do you realize what this means?”
    “Yeah,” responded Shane glumly.  “You will be gone for six months and I’ll be stuck here.  I still have this semester’s commitment on the warball team and if University of Jehhet can beat the Aggies we’re going to the finals,” he reminded her.
    “Oh,” Ava said abruptly.  “I forgot about that.”  Her eyes brightened mischievously, “Hey maybe you will get injured.”  She smiled.
    “Thanks a lot,” Shane smirked back.  “You should go.  It would be inline perfect for what you and your family wants for you to become expert in and it will give me time to work on my new theories and build my test artifact to see if I’m on to something.”
    “Speaking of which,” Ava said, standing up and stretching.  “We have been dancing around this all night.  We are finally alone.  What theories and discoveries did you make?”
    Shane pulled out his notes of the exact drawing of the light artifact that he had made the night before.  “I copied these down last night with the intent of making a duplicate.  I have decided that every device I catalog here I am going to make a book of my own, that way if I ever crack the secret of the artifact glyphs I’ll not have to rely upon the University for my Data Samples.
    But that’s not the good part.  Did you ever touch the light that emits from the artifact we were cataloging last night?”
    “No” responded Ava.
    “Well I did,” replied Shane enthusiastically.  “I touched the contact and it lit up like it was supposed to.  I was interested in the fact that it didn’t require a crystal as an emitter for the light.  Out of curiosity I put my hand into the light and it wasn’t hot or cold it was just as if I were waving it through the air.  What I did feel was something much unexpected.  I felt a tingling sensation in my hand.  I held it there for probably thirty seconds or so and there was nothing more, just the tingling.  Afterwards I was impressed; kind of like an idea popped into my head, to examine the glyphs more closely which led me to examining the scroll work.  It turns out that the scroll work is made of very small inscribed glyphs.  One thing led to another and I ended up copying the whole thing down on paper.”
    “So the scroll works are glyphs,” Ava responded rhetorically.   “They just look like artwork or designs.  I’m going to have to start looking at all designs and glyphs under a magnifier from now on.… I wonder what else we have missed.”
    “That isn’t the big part,” Shane continued.  Shane told her about the dream, the pyramid, the valley, the goblet and the voice, and how he had been told to build a similar device but make some changes in two glyphs.
    “I think that my putting my hand in that light did something magical to me and