Ra Salcedo returns to his hometown, Old Yantic, without having resolved key identity issues. He has notmet a single familiar face---the cherished spaces from childhood have all closed. Has he made a mistake,taking a job with the local police? He's burdened with doubts... until he's sent to investigate RenataMachado.She's a young woman who has been targeted by a group of bigoted neighbors, using traditional bullyingtactics to drive her out. Until an AI geek moves in next door and introduces a way of communicatingappealing to the imagination. This new, invisible presence is like magic---soft, inviting, inventive, gentle.Renata falls in love with the entity she calls Pauli, who visits her like a lover.But, like Viktor Frankenstein ees from the creature he created, because of its ugliness, so does Pauli'screator ee---but because he's afraid of love. This leaves a Quantum space open to unethical learners ofteleportation.What follows is a journey into Terror, where Renata discovers her strength and intelligence to confrontdarkness. While trying to get help from the authorities, unsuccessfully, she enters a road of self-actualization,of knowledge. The people she's ghting seem to consider everyone who walks in integrity an enemy.Renata's statement, "I'm not ready for magic without ethics... Nobody should be," calls for society'sawareness to the dangers of unchecked scienti c research.The story is narrated in three voices--- rst person, with Renata and Ra as witnesses; and the third personimpersonal narrator, who provides the reader with a needed distance to sort out the facts presented. Ithelps that Ra Salcedo manages to solve the riddle of a mysterious murder thanks to actively listening toRenata's story. Which brings us to the beginning: Renata's plea to opening our eyes to things that are notsupposed to be happening....Famous people warned us. Einstein talked of "spooky things in the distance." And Schrödinger... But rstwe need to read the story to see what all this means.