Gwyn cocked his head and peered at the symbols.  Like so many of his interpretations, his 'literacy' was limited to what he had observed from the crew.  For example, the symbol 'E' meant 'God dammit, I told you to throw another load in the furnace!' and anything with a currency symbol attached to it meant someone was going to be yelling soon.  These symbols were unfamiliar, but all he had to do was remember them and copy them.  Giving them meanings wasn't necessary.<br/><br/>As he launched himself from the deck, he was struck by the same disorienting feelings that he had experienced on his first trip through the portal.  Direction was all relative - the ship was constant, as was the strange device by the portal, but he had the eerie feeling that anything else in this realm was completely mutable.  Half-seen flashes sparked at the edges of his vision, some dilating like staring pupils before dwindling to pinpricks and fading.  Size even seemed relative.  He remembered the gate being barely wide enough to pass through before, but now it dwarfed him as he hovered in front of the console.<br/><br/>No more delay.  Delicately, he picked out the symbols he had seen on the paper, and the portal blazed to life.  Gwyntaan arrowed back to the ship - purely because he wanted to report the success of his mission, of course.