Cheese, bread, and dried fruit were packed in her many-pocketed artist's totebag, along with things she brought with her: a wooden pencil box, a drinking water bottle, a sweater, a blanket, the maps she augmented in Anyaclaver, the disk that contained the software to communicate with Clara. In an outside pocket was the Anyaclaver identification badge that would allow her to exit through the backgate without triggering the forcefield.

She did not know if the badge would allow her return. She thought about Hanae and Brinn, Dean Amafini-ere, and the women-centered labs and wished that it would.