"Indeed," Blythe answers. "Those who don't fit in as readily as you two are forced to live in hiding, and the mistreatment of anyone who comes through the rift goes unacknowledged. I'm not saying you should start a parade to get noticed, because obviously it's not that simple. But one of our long-term goals is that Rift immigrants can be allowed to intergrate properly with society."

"If we do try to gain attention, we are immediately painted as a threat." She sighs heavily. Blythe's seen the majority of the rift related developments, and it's an uphill battle. "Then there's the fact that every once in a while something that actually is a threat comes through the rift, and ordinary people just aren't prepared, because they don't know about it. There's been quite a few deaths labelled as freak accidents and such in the past few years."