Chapter 4: Captured
Over the next few days, Carl told himself that doubt and an intense reaction to such an act of s****l violence was only natural. He assiduously did his meditation and relaxation exercise, and repeated the precepts of the Order and Corps over and over, feeling almost like a monk, chanting religious prayers.
In their Temporal Mechanics class, they discussed various aspects of the incursion field, which was the second, higher-order eigenstate—that is, stable operational state—of the space-time portal, the first being the probe field. They examined the mathematics of such states, and Carl was impressed how, even though the probe field required a lot of energy to generate, the incursion field—which allowed not just the perception of a place in space and time, but actual co
