Sonia blinks, looking thoughtful at that. "I don't know how the device would work," she says slowly, brow knit. "I mean...I'm not an astrophysicist or anything. But if there's a way to open wormholes to other worlds, then...then there ought to be some way to hold them open, at least for a little while."

To be separated from loved ones who are just out of reach... Sonia thinks of her mother, her older brother. She hasn't seen them in ten years. Would they even recognize her now?

She looks at Beth almost diffidently as she sidles out of the stall to take down the take for the other horse. "How many?"