He hummed, before rubbing his forehead. "Damn, and here I thought at least one of those experiments would have worked."<br/><br/>At her curious head tilt, he explained. "I figured the plane was tied to me and/or Ve'len, so I did a number of experiments in an attempt to keep it from reacting too quickly if something had happened to us. Sadly, the plane was better at detecting me than I had hoped, so those dozen and a half experiments were a massive waste of time, energy, and resources. Some were as simple as using a redirect spell to health cell samples from me, others were more... metaphysical and esoteric. I won't horrify you with the details.<br/><br/>Though I am also guessing the other gods didn't immediately notice, or else they likely would have tried to annihilate the lot of you, I mean my companions, regardless of Barid."