She looked at the hologram, fascinated, then at the other holograms, then back at me. "But it's not peer tested yet, and still unsure of bias making images of what you want to see?"

I nodded, "Yes, but this news, of possibly you are sharing dreams with yourself?"

She pursed her lips, "I'd hoped I'd have a clean slate to work with here, let my former meatbag go on her own path. Now I'm getting astral postcards?"

I grinned and shrugged helplessly. "If there were a way to verify who came to your apartment in the last two days."

"If I could get into my doorbell camera."

Polly's ears perked up, "I accessed your phone remotely via hacking the cafe wifi on the ground floor below your apartment. I estimated that chance of detection of intrusion would be too high to risk going through your work office."

Dolly cast a look worthy of a mother about to scold a child, then let her hair down to offer connection. Polly appeared to have employed the look of the smug in reply, and connected her cable. Their active cables lit white and glowed. She put down her tablet on the desk and showed the video feeds that activated when movement was detected.

Various people, a cat, a bird caught inside the building. Then past midnight, a flash of red hair and white cat, loud thumping, then the cat buried against the wall with a massive woman, a hyena upon her, in a forceful kiss in the hallway.

"Oh." Dolly said, and I knew that 'oh', the one she made when I would say something suggestive which she found playful. "That lucky wench. Now how about that."

Fumbling with keys and then the door fell open and the pair fell out of sight and the recording closed.

Dolly nodded, "That was the foreign artefact in my tesseract."

"That was quite a bit of duct tape you were wearing," Polly deadpanned.

I leaned back in the chair, impossibly huge grin on my face. "So close. So close, Dolly is the proof! I sense it."

The two Syxen regarded me back, I could tell they were in silent communication, and so I waited for them to complete, as I knew they would have something to say. Dolly spoke first, "Imagine every major religion on the globe learning there is proof of a soul. Such elation. Fanfare? Now imagine adding, not only does this soul transfer between bodies, and can connect to two bodies, a soul can inhabit synthetic or biologic. Imagine a further implication that there may be biological intelligences without souls at all."

I grimaced, but Polly had more to add.

"This revelation originating from this location increases our prediction of terrorist attacks on this island from baseline to 22% within the year following. 77% chance of the attack taking the form of a hijacked motor vehicle driven into a crowd."

I put my face in my hands, rubbing my temples and Dolly came around the desk to kiss me on the ear.

"I don't know if I'm ready to be the next antichrist."

I understood, of course, and put a hand on her waist, patted twice, "Slowly and cautiously. We shall see how things go in the courts as they are right now."

I had received an invitation to attend the Conseil constitutionnel in Paris, and I will need to choose my words carefully. And invite the Syxen of this island to hold Consensus as to whether I attend the Conseil at all.