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said feeling very puzzled.
    ‘Did you notice that woman with the long plaits?’ Tullia asked. ‘There was something familiar about her.’
    ‘No, I was looking at the men with their spears and bows. They must be tracking an animal.’
    ‘Can we can wind the pictures back?’ Tullia wondered, desperately hoping that they could.
    She picked up the lantern. As she turned the dial she realised that what she thought was the projector with the flap over it, was at the back. A light appeared on the wall.
Oh well, simple mistake.
    The light slowly changed into a picture –
or a window –
thought Tullia. Slowly, whatever it was they were seeing cleared – snow! There was a lot of land, a steep hill sloping down to a more gentle slope and lots of trees. They looked very pretty with their branches all covered in thick snow.
    Together they moved closer to the wall and looked at the scene from opposite angles. They agreed. It wasn’t a picture they were looking at. The different views they had were exactly as if they were looking through a window. Yet they had gone down the stairs so far they had to be underground.
    Whatever the answer, the really big question was: what was the point of the pictures or scenes they were being shown? Just as all Tazii, the twins lived their lives intimately connected with the quantum world, where everything was connected in one way or another. There had to be a reason, however difficult it might be to find the answer.
    The lantern made a soft humming sound and the scene disappeared.
    Tullia turned one of the dials around. Click, click. Nothing happened. Taking a deep breath, she thought:
In for a Quark, in for a Twistor,
and tried turning the other dial backwards. Kcilc. The Lantern shuddered and a window reappeared. It was fuzzy and bright. All they could see was a greyish white colour. Feeling very unsettled, they sat and waited for a picture, or a scene, to appear.
    When nothing happened they summonsed up their courage and stood up to look through what they had accepted must be a window. The view was still very fuzzy. Strange shapes were dotted along the hillside. One of them was larger than the others. As they watched, it split into three as they saw two shapes move to either side of the third.
    In silent agreement, the twins used their arms to wipe away the condensation on the window, just as two of the figures turned and looked up, right at them it seemed.
    ‘A snowman!!’
    ‘Children??’
    ‘Our sort of age??’
    ‘Pale faces and blonde hair!!’
    They turned to look at one another, each seeing the look of amazement in the other’s eyes.
    ‘Azurii!!’
    Tullia was intrigued by the girl’s hair style. A series of multi-coloured rings around the top of her head. How had she created that effect?
    ‘Kaigii?’ She turned to look at her twin. His face was pressed against the window, his eyes two violet ovals. Concerned, as he was only a boy, younger than her, and she had to look after him, she moved alongside and gently put her arm around him so as not to disturb his deepstate.
    Something was different. She leant her head against his and searched. He was not there! He had left his body and gone travelling. That meant using the seventh dimension. They had done that a few times with full preparation and under close supervision by Lellia in her special Seliya Chamber. And always together.

CHAPTER 4
TRAVELLING
    Qwelby was puzzled. A moment ago he had been looking down through a window, now he was only metres away from what had to be Azurii. He tried to move. He was stuck inside something. Inside whatever it was he could just squirm around a little. Then it struck him. He was in the snowman!
    Roaring Xzarze! I’m in my energy body. On Azura!
‘Busana!’ he called, naturally using Tazian as the only language he knew to say “Hallo.” There was no reaction. ‘Buuuusana!’ he yelled. Still no reaction. The youngsters could not hear him.
    ‘Flaming Werebeasts! This is madness. If I go