<br/>Darren flipped the switch that would link him back into the construct.  The experience was much less disorienting after the initial calibration.  A door appears and he steps in, free of the collar and dressed in more normal clothes.  "What in the......Alex?"  He says in shock seeing the tattooed woman sitting on the couch.  "Alex..is that you?"  he asks realizing the woman sitting here is the same one he had been staring at for days in the lab.<br/><br/><br/>He had wanted to pick Alex's brain about the nanite technology he had been reading.  Perhaps the perspective of someone alive during its first uses would help.  But the woman in front of him had completely derailed him.  Nothing else in the construct had changed.  'Could I have made a mistake and transferred her into the gemstone' he thought to himself.