"I heard, the goblin who came up with the idea put a piece of his bone in each Node," Claire whispered to her mother as Tosh logged in and began entering something in a program. "That's how the spell knows to find all the Nodes at the same time."
"Wrong," the administrator rolled his r a little as he worked. "It was a piece of his brain, kept alive in each one. The spell connects them all so he can talk."
"That's f*****g creepy," Claire gasped. "Oh, sorry, Tosh. I didn't mean to cuss. Um... Michelle would kill to get her hands on one of these."
"She has already begged me," he chuckled. "Look, I've found them!"
The two breathed a combined sigh of relief, moving to kneel on either side of him as he brought up some sort of mapping software on the central screen.
"They weren't kidding abo
