The Dimensional Riff, 1, 
The Fein Farm Cooperative, 3, 
5 Years earlier – Cairo, 7, 
Cairo dig site, 10, 
Deceptions and lies, from Cairo with love, 20, 
Mark's journey into tomorrow, 24, 
Another place, similar time, 31, 
Another time, another place, 33, 
Back in Cairo, 35, 
Conjectures or reality, and a chance to woo, 38, 
Courting Rituals – Arapahoe Style, 42, 
Ankara to Madrid. Rome to Cairo, 44, 
Impending nuptials as duplicity wiles bare, 51, 
The Young Agent Banks, 58, 
The Madrid connection, 64, 
Deata Prime, 68, 
The reality that was then, 70, 
The reality that is now, 74, 
Stirrings, rousing, and movements of an ethereal type, 81, 
Miles's discordance, 83, 
Deata Prime, the council convenes, 96, 
The dig site at Sonora, 97, 
Remembering Cairo and the Cabal, 99, 
The Find of the Century, 105, 
A child is coming, 114, 
Each find more amazing than the last, 120, 
In Chicago, the con continues, 124, 
The Weyen influence, 129, 
The Catholic Church and its divisive sense of contempt, 132, 
Wishes, wants, and needs, 138, 
Kris-crossing crosses, 141, 
The Birth of Marin, 144, 
The Dig Site progresses, 149, 
Wind songs in the tunnels, 151, 
Storms Wax and Wane, 153, 
Cousins, a Correlation, and a Possible Causality, 156, 
Marin and Anya, 160, 
The Watchers Array, 162, 
Stipulations, Suppositions, and a Hypothesis, 165, 
Marin's games, 173, 
Balancing power and the delusions of man, 178, 
The Passing of Longbow's Arrow, 182, 
Into another now, 184, 
Miriam's metamorphosis, 187, 
The Cycle of the Clan, 189, 
Second chances, 193, 
Then the Earth moved, 197, 
Into the jungle dark and deep, 202, 
The watcher's intent, 205, 
Back up in Washington, 207, 
Capitol Hill, the Smithsonian, and a little guile, 210, 
The quake felt around the world, 211, 
Ryce's obsession, 214, 
African connections, 218, 
Ryce's Commitment, 222, 
Conniving and canoodling, 224, 
But no acts of contrition, 227, 
Senate Appropriations - taking the Capsule to Rome, 230, 
Watchful Eyes', 233, 
M.I.A, 234, 
Return to Belo Monto, 245, 
In-between, 251, 
Old Ways, 254, 
Marin made three, 257, 
Transfer of the Pod, 263, 
Moving the Pod, 266, 
Out of the Afura sea, 269, 
Belt-way Bugaboo, 273, 
A rift in time, 276, 
Return to Sonora, 278, 
A Chinese connection, 281, 
Yin Yang, 284, 
Feng shui, 285, 
Not today, 287, 
To the farm and regroup, 289, 
Weyen Fey, 292, 
Aiding misconceptions, 293, 
Military deceptions span world-wide, 298, 
Missing – in an instant, 301, 
The Fall of Windsong Long Bow Wanderhorse, 305, 
A call from beyond the in-between, 308, 
Experiments in time and space, 311, 
In another Time, another place, 313, 
A lie, a ruse, a contrivance or two, 315, 
One Returns, 317, 
Marin's promise, 319, 
Lost but not forgotten, 320, 
The return to now and an uneventful debriefing, 323,

CHAPTER 1

The Dimensional Riff

Three years earlier the National Weather Service contacted NORAD regarding unusual sun spots that produced numerous abnormalities in magnetic resonance tracking and solar luminosity modulations not usually found in the normal manifestation of sunspots as they emanated from the sun. Fearing human intervention, particularly from the Russians or North Korea, the weather service made a formal request of NORAD to monitor solar flares. NASA was read in, and all monitoring satellites were upgraded to account for all solar activity as it related to the planet. Higher than normal magnetic activity was found in the area surrounding Area 51 in the Sonora desert, a large expanse in Siberia, the Congo, the Amazon, and a smaller more elusive region around the Akura Sea.

And for a brief period, lasting approximately 90 revolutions around the sun, at intermittent intervals, higher than normal radio-active magnetic bursts created simultaneous X-points in these four regions. Solar flares were noted occurring within this time frame, however, there was no corresponding magnetic or electrical disturbance on earth. Yet, the dispersement of whistler waves did not cause oscillatory relaxation. Instead, each of these areas showed what appeared to be a vortex. The funnel absorbed the oncoming solar wind without as much as a ripple in Earth's atmosphere. Depending on the direction of the flare at the time of disbursement the vortex widened well above the Exosphere, funneling the energy into the Earth's core. With one exception. That was just south of Area 51 in the Sonora Desert.

With the second to last occurrence of solar activity the National Weather Service noted a higher than usual electro-particle variation with a corresponding phase space trajectory intersecting in Sonora. Magnetic disturbances were noted by both NORAD and Area 51 personnel, however extensive searches on the desert region indicated no abnormalities.

And yet the scientists disagreed. There were abnormalities. Miniscule at best, but recordable. The saw-toothed oscillations created collision less reconnections in space plasma. The thin sheet of the Earth's magnetotail has developed a small micro-fracture. Unobservable from Earth's surface, but mathematically quantified. SOHO and WMAP recorded the aberrancy almost simultaneously. And then it disappeared. Considered a fluke by most, only a few radical astrophysicists choose to follow the intermittent stream of disputed data theorizing and speculating as conspiracy theories spewed forth

CHAPTER 2

The Fein Farm Cooperative

In a little farm, just west of the highway 17, Roy Fein, a disgruntled and semi-retired quantum physicist, along with his commune of aging hippies, captured a glimmer of what would later prove to be a segment of an interdimensional quantum string. Roy left the work-a-day world nearly a decade earlier when his theory on space time continuums and intergalactic travel were regarded as pure hokum. Not to be considered the laughing stock, he offered his theories and journals as science fiction and made quite a name for himself. The royalties from his books allowed for a quite moderate existence in the desert. Roy married the love of his life, had a daughter, and decided to raise goats, for their wool and cheese, and marijuana, for personal use of course, and withdrew from society. He hosted a small migratory band of hippies, some rainbow children, and the disenfranchised.

Everyone, on reservation and in the neighboring town, was especially proud of Roy Fein. He went off to University to become a physicist; and when his books turned to science fiction, well his choice to return to the farm and write was met with equal acclaim. Roy was 1/4 First nation on his mother's side, Navajo going back to the 1850's and part Seminole/ Creek when the tribe was forced to move from Florida some 20 years earlier. Roy's four-time grandmother was part Creek and part Seminole. A small child at the time of relocation, this ancestor walked the Trail of Tears, surviving the many incursions against Native people by the soldiers of Andrew Jackson's armies. His three times grandfather Fein came from Canada to settle as a shepherd with a community of French Basques. The land was offered to the Fein family after the Civil War for services rendered to the Union army in the guise of wool from the goats and sheep herded on the land. Eventually Fein men married local women, many of whom where Native Americans from the tribes that were relocated to this area in the desert; thus, solidifying the claim to the vast acreage that eventually became the farm cooperative.

Roy encouraged all the children from the reservation to go past their limitations of being born on a reservation. Many took his words to heart. All the children from the Long Bow and Wanderhorse clans went on to University. Fortune would fate Windsong and Mark to become the most notable of the siblings.

The farm's population varied from five to 50. Some were students who felt alienated at the Universities, some were First Nation's people seeking a life off the reservation, but still close to the land. Others, came to get clean and sober. Some just needed a respite from the modern world, seeking solitude and repose in the natural surroundings of Sonora. Everyone were welcome and none were turned away. There was much to be done on the farm, tending to the sheep and goats, the small meager crops, and of course the Cannabis. Roy ran the commune, with the 70's understanding of the lifestyle. Up with the sun, meals offered family style three times a day, no electronic devices except in Roy's house where a computer was hooked to a 56" monitor; and was mainly used for weekly movie nights and soccer games. Roy also had a laptop upon which he wrote, maintained his blog, and occasionally skyped with those colleagues who still held his opinion in high regard. Most of the residents slept in tents, under the stars, or in the vans that brought them to the farm. It was a peaceful, happy existence. And very much off the grid.

That summer the commune had been noticing odd changes in the weather surrounding the farm. Unusual wind gusts, almost tornado-like in intensity would appear above specific land masses. Wupakti Monument and Round Rock saw most of these occurrences. However, it was a simple stretch of desert near a magnificent Fan Palm tree formation that received the most intense storm activity. On the last day of the third cycle of storms, a tri-funneled tornado briefly touched down. Lightening abounded creating a beautiful display. The skies opened and a light rain fell for less than 10 minutes. The sky turned from blue, to purple, to yellow, to green, and back to blue again. Clouds of all descriptions and type littered the sky. And then, one all-encompassing thunderous boom, followed by the most earie of all silence. Not a bird, not the howl of the wind, not even a car whizzing by on the near-by highway could be heard. Even the goats kept silent.

Then, as if awakening from a dream, life returned. Birds tweeted and owls hooted, goats bleated, and the rushing sound of automobiles was heard once again on the highway. But with that came a strange shimmer of light, ascending over the entire camp. It hovered over the fire pit. It skirted between those folks enjoying a slow, carefree smoke of the indigenous weed. It seemed to grow livelier when smoke was exhaled, and after a while, it appeared brighter, larger, and well, friendly.

The farm folks called it Tinker, after the fairy in Peter Pan. Tinker gave the impression of having an intelligence. It skirted between some people and avoided others. It followed Roy around like a puppy, but never came into the house. It also appeared to enjoy the company of Anya, Roy's daughter. Anya would try to catch it, chasing the light as it flew around the farm. Oddly enough, it did not care for the goats, leaving Anya whenever she tended to her tribe. But it came bounding back to her when she left the goats behind. Tinker appeared to enjoy the smoke pit. And folks noted that if they had a wish or desire while around the pit when Tinker was present, their wish was granted.

The desires were usually for simple things, like a new pair of boots or toothpaste and a new tooth brush. Soon the wishes grew to include a new tent, or a cot with a mattress, a working latrine, and a fully functioning kitchen. At first Roy believed that the wishes were granted by a beneficent guest. Someone who overheard the simple requests. But when a large tent suddenly appeared overnight, complete with a fully functioning kitchen, and a full array of tables and chairs, followed by a latrine with several working showers and an unlimited supply of hot water Roy began to wonder if magic was afoot. Then the really odd thing happened. The sleeping tents were regulation size, the usual 12-18. But once inside they became massive, spacious, and almost voluminous. Sleeping quarters had beds, with soft downy comforters and king sized pillows, chairs, and a chest of drawers for every resident. One of the rainbow people mentioned it was like living inside the Tardis, bigger on the inside than on the out, and luxurious beyond belief.

Roy knew not to look a gift horse in the mouth so he swore the farm's inhabitants to secrecy. He did not care to have peepers walking in from the town, or worse, Government types looking to unnecessarily tax his meager income. Heck, as far as he knew the changes were all an illusion, capable of disappearing at a given moment. The folks who called the farm home shared his view. Many came there to escape the outside world, and anonymity was one of the few luxuries they all enjoyed. What was one more shared delusion?

CHAPTER 3

5 Years earlier – Cairo

The sun beat down as the archeological team descended the airplane. The heat was unlike that of Arizona. Not humid, and not dry, but scorching none-the-less. The brightness of the sun was blinding. Even the sunglasses worn by the travelers could not shield them from the onslaught of soleil. Mark Wanderhorse, Bruce, Ryce, and their sister Windsong Long Bow stood transfixed on the tarmac as they were greeted by their guide, and fellow scholar, Miles Jakison. He was followed by a pert brunette in a sundress, heels, a large floppy hat, wearing oversized sunglasses and carrying a parasol.

"Mark, Ryce, Bruce, and who do we have here?" exclaimed Miles as he took Windsong hand, twirling her around and kissing her hand. "Enchante madam. Who is this exquisite creature?"

Bruce disengaged Miles from Windsong stating, "This is my little sister, Windsong. She is a graduate student and here to help on the dig."

"So glad you made it. Landing at noon, brave of you. Were there no later flights? No-one I mean no-one travels in the heat of the day, but, you're from Arizona, you must be used to this heat."

Mark mopped the sweat from his brow, "Believe me Miles, even Arizona desert heat can't compare to this. This is blistering."

Just then the brunette made a harrumph and Miles turned, taking her by the waist and gently pushing her forward, "May I introduce Dr. Particia Mundari. Her university is one of the sponsors funding this site, and I should tell you, it may just prove to be major. We have found the entrance to what may be a lost pharaoh's tomb. The Department of Antiquities is all over it. We were able to enlist fifty or so locals to help with the heavy lifting. You four will be doing most of the authentication. And don't worry, we have portable air-conditioning units on site in many of the larger tents. It gets cold at night so they also double as heating units. Winny, my dear, I can call you Winny can't I, you will be bunking with Particia." Particia extended her hand and Windsong shook it.

"Come under my parasol Winny, it will offer some shade until we get into the building and the air. We'll get something to eat in the terminal. At least there they will have some normal cuisine. The food here is awful. If I eat any more beans or okra I will just die, of course there is fried liver and pigeon, but I, of course, prefer quail. They do a decent roast lamb, and there is chicken, but you can forget beef or pork. This is a Muslim country, and cows don't do well in this heat. So, you can forget a good steak, never mind a hamburger." Particia rambled on, Windsong just nodded at appropriate intervals and looked over her shoulder at her brothers and the handsome Mark Wanderhorse. Sighing deeply, Winny's shoulders drooped. "Miles, really, this girl is about to drop from heat exhaustion, you can tell the boys about the dig once we get inside where it is cooler." Particia said as she began to fan Windsong with her large, floppy hat.

"Thank God you're here Particia, or I would be forgetting my manners. Of course, you all must be famished and about to drop from this heat." Miles ushered the four inside and almost immediately they were beginning to feel refreshed as the cooler air began to revive them. A table was found at the airports international restaurant. Beers and ice teas were ordered, as well American style hamburgers, at Particia's insistence. "Might as well enjoy them now," said Particia, "it may just be the last familiar meal you'll need." Particia requested scotch, four fingers straight up, with a beer chaser, and began to gobble her fare as soon as it arrived at the table.

Between bites Particia rambled on, about this and that, how her family had been involved in antiquities in Italy long before they moved to the States. Her prattling caused Windsong to doze off more than once only to be pinched awake by Ryce or Bruce. Realizing that this might be considered rude Windsong excused herself to the restrooms to freshen up only to be accompanied by Particia who continued her discourse.

Particia not so subtly hinted that she was of noble blood and was distantly related to the Marquis of Montemuros. "It was such a shame, an absolute disgrace really, having to sell off many of the family's possessions after WWI. Well it was the only way to get the family out of Europe. The unification efforts made a shamble of the aristocracy. It was a disaster, being pulled by the Pope and the Catholics on one side and the Empire of the other. Napoleon and the French did nothing to help the families." Windsong splashed water on her face and neck in an attempt to keep awake and not have to reply to anything that Particia was saying. Not that Particia noticed. She was enamored with the sound of her own voice. Soon they were back at the table.

"Are you alright sis?" asked Ryce on her return.

Windsong sat back and whispered, "My god that woman rambles on. I swear Ryce, she continued to talk while in the stall. Some nonsense about being of royal blood going back before the 1850's."

Ryce stifled a laugh as a cough. "Remind me to get Mario Calpuzzio to tell you about Ms. Mundari lineage. Most of it is bluster and fable. The only truth is that her father is the head of a pizza empire back in Chicago, the King Pizza Palace, and his little princess gets everything she wants, including a blank check to fund part of this excavation."

"Don't we have one near Phoenix?"

"You are right sis; and not a bad piece of pie if I remember correctly. I believe the franchise includes Mama Mia's frozen Italian meals too." "I remember those, everything is frozen separately, you added the extras to the bread at home and popped it into the oven or microwave.

Inexpensive if you got them in bulk from the FedMart. Not that much meat in the sauce, but you could always add your own."

Particia glanced over at Winny and Ryce, not wanting to be left out of a conversation she smiled coquettishly. "Something I should know?" she asked.

Winny smiled shyly and stated, "Am I to guess, that you are the same Mundari that owns Mama Mia's Italian meals and King Pizza Palace?"

"You are familiar with my family's foods? How wonderful! So, now you understand why I am so frustrated by the lack of edible cuisine here in Egypt. It's atrocious really, my grandparents worked so hard to establish a brand. Grandfather had several international chefs from Italy and France working on his recipes. Of course, I was raised on only the best of the best." Particia rested her chin on her hands and gave her famous Mona Lisa smile.

CHAPTER 4

Cairo dig site

Once everyone was refreshed and the color had returned to Windsong cheeks Miles suggested loading up the van and heading out to the dig. Particia prattled on about the extreme heat of the day and the cold of the night, often waving her oversized hat as a fan, her other hand fluttering as a gesture of her displeasure at something or other. "Really, Winny, you'd think the University of Cairo would have more pleasurable accommodations; Egypt being up to their armpits in oil and all. But no. I had to make a call to Daddy just to get a decent bed and sheets. You must watch out for scorpions. They are all over. You must keep your boots upside-down or they will crawl right in. Trust me, you would not want to get bitten. That is why I called Daddy for a real bed, no sleeping bag for me, those creatures will make themselves at home. We lost a very obliging porter to a scorpion bite. True he was fluffing my linens at the time. To think it could have been me."

(Continues...)

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We will collect names, addresses, contact details, education and employment history, identity and other background checks (which may include appropriate criminal and financial checks and confirmation of the right to work in the UK), marital status and information on next of kin and dependents, financial information (such as bank details and NI numbers), date of birth, gender, a copy of your passport and driving licence, performance information and compensation history, recruitment information (including references), salary, benefits, pension and annual leave information, disciplinary and grievance information, photographs, information about your use of our information and communications systems and CCTV footage or other information obtained through electronic means.

We may collect and use special categories of personal data as required in the carrying out of obligations and exercising specific rights of us or the data subject in the field of employment. This may include information relating to matters such as health, racial origin, religious belief and offences or alleged offences.

Personal data may be collected from you during the selection process (for example via your application form and CV) and during your employment (including holiday forms, expense claims, performance reviews, any disciplinary or grievance processes), or from third parties, including referees, health service providers, background check providers.

USE:
Personal data of our people will be used for HR administration and management, both in respect of the selection of people to work for us (including suitability, eligibility and/or fitness to work), and those who do work for us, to include learning and development, disciplinary and security (of people, offices and data) requirements, providing and liaising with benefits providers, business management and planning (including accounting and auditing), paying you and dealing with tax and NI deductions, assessing and deciding on salary reviews and compensation, conducting performance reviews and managing performance, dealing with legal disputes involving you or others, preventing fraud, monitoring your use of our information and communications systems, ensuring compliance with our policies, and equal opportunities monitoring.

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

In performance of a contract with you; and/or
compliance with a legal obligation; and/or
vital interests of the data subject; and/or
where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
We may also use your personal data in the following situations, which are likely to be less common:

where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests);
where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
In respect of all disclosures of personal data, we will only share the personal information which is necessary for the particular purpose for which it is provided, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, and we will ensure that the personal data is appropriately protected.

In respect of special categories of personal data, we may process this in the following circumstances:

in limited circumstances with your explicit written consent; and/or
where we need to carry out our legal obligations and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed in the public interest (such as for equal opportunities monitoring or in relation to our occupational pension scheme), and in line with our policies; and/or
where it is needed to assess your working capacity on health grounds, subject to appropriate confidentiality safeguards.
Less commonly, we may process this type of information where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your (or someone else’s) interests and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public. We may also process such information about our people (or former people) in the course of our legitimate business activities with the appropriate safeguards.

The special categories of personal data may be used in the following ways:

in relation to leaves of absence, to comply with employment and other laws;
in relation to your physical or mental health, or disability status, to ensure your health and safety in the workplace and to assess your fitness to work, to monitor, manage and administer benefits and absences;
in relation to your race, national or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or moral beliefs, or your sexual life or sexual orientation, to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting.
DISCLOSURE:
Personal data may be transferred to service providers who support the operation of our business (such as payroll service providers), to other third parties reasonably necessary in the conduct of our business (including insurers, professional advisors, regulators). These third parties may be acting as processor, or controller of personal data in their own right.

RETENTION PERIOD:
We will keep personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We will normally keep personal data of applicants who we do not employ for six months after we receive it.

We will keep personal data of employees throughout your employment and normally for a minimum of six years after your employment ends.

Changes to your personal data
It is very important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and current. Please tell us if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.

Data Security
We have put in place measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those of our people and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and where they have agreed to treat the information confidentially and to keep it secure. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and the ICO of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.

Where we store your personal data
We principally store data, both electronically and on file, at our office.

Personal data may be transferred outside of the EEA by processors acting on our behalf. For transfers to countries not considered adequate by the EC, we will ensure that personal data is adequately protected, as required by the GDPR. This would include by use of the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the EC to protect personal data.

Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you have the right by law to request:

access to your personal data. This enables you to ask to receive a copy of the personal data that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
erasure of your personal data.
object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on our legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
restriction of processing of your personal data.
transfer of your personal data to another party.
Links from our website
Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties that we permit to make such links. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We recommend that you check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on our website, so please ensure that you are viewing the correct version.

Please contact us if you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this Privacy Policy.

Last amended May 2021.

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