Culprit revealed

"Is it over now?" I asked, raising my eyes from the half-finished scarf in my hands. 

In the end, the task that I took on just to make my voice over the phone more believable proved to be quite interesting. And from the very moment, I imagined Fay wearing a scarf I made with my own, two eyes… 

"I certainly hope so," Makary replied, casting a quick glance at the distant entrance to the hangar. 

In theory, it was possible to make a call from Fay's world over to Earth. But for it to happen, quite a lot of equipment had to be put in place, from the local relay tower to even pick up the call in the first place, through transfer stations on both sides of the gate along with a cable thick enough to convey the electric signal through while shielding the encoded information from the gate's interference…