Using the teleportation formation, you say.
Mark's expression shifted with the particular, reluctant quality of someone who has heard a request and has already located the specific problem with it before the person making the request has finished expecting an easy answer.
"That is indeed difficult."
Lukas had anticipated resistance of the particular, financial variety — the specific, solvable category of difficulty that star crystals addressed, the kind that existed not because the thing was impossible but because the thing cost something and the cost had not yet been offered. He had not anticipated the particular, structural variety of difficulty — the kind that star crystals do not address because the obstacle is not price but permission.
"What's the problem?"
