"They went to the blank places, without things to poke at them," Gabriel said, then paused, not quite frowning, exactly, as he didn't quite have a sense of expressions, yet, but the mood was somehow conveyed anyway. "Ah - sorry. Linear time. What had it said? Cross-section -- No. It is not easy. It is not difficult, either, exactly. It is more like trying not to do something than trying to do something, and trying not to do it very slowly. How does it make the touch again? Ah - nerve endings. Yes, I remember." Gabriel's form seemed to ripple slightly on the surface, but he didn't move otherwise.

"Uhm - numbers mean less, but you would call it nine. Likely could touch higher, if there was higher, and I knew how. Like you can, with your crystals. But it isn't necessary. Can you see, as a crystal? Or do you just see the three dimensions and blindly gesture into beyond them."