"You think so?" she says ironically to the last. "The sheer amount of energy needed to maintain a place like this, much less replacing things as I've been told it does—not to mention the temporal and spatial barrier? It shouldn't even be possible. And if it's dragging people here—"

She puts her hands on her hips. "Have you two made even the slightest headway in researching this, or are you too busy squabbling over your methodologies and torturing each other to get any real work done?"