Gary Brandt transforms his tale from The Dimension Of Mind Dot Com into a master class on consciousness physics when Helana completely revolutionizes the Navy's understanding of remote viewing during their first Saturday ONI training session.
While Commander Beaker fidgets nervously and the girls assert they won't become spies, Helana calmly dismantles decades of military remote viewing techniques with stunning interdimensional wisdom.
She explains that everything perceived is 'imaginary'—imagination is simply how raw consciousness data becomes experienced reality, that there's no 'remote' because all information exists in the dimension of mind where distance doesn't exist, and that they've been doing it wrong by trying to view while awake instead of letting spirit access the collective soul during sleep or deep meditation.
Her casual revelation that Melanie visited their interdimensional night school party but couldn't participate fully because she came 'awake' rather than in spirit shows just how advanced these girls' abilities have become compared to Earth's fumbling attempts at psychic development.
But Brandt shifts from metaphysical education to heart-stopping action when what starts as a peaceful situational awareness lesson at the mall turns into a deadly assassination attempt.
The girls are practicing observation skills over gelato when Ella and Helana simultaneously sense danger—a armed man charging toward them with multiple weapons.
Ella's psychic blast knocks him down, Helana slams his face to concrete, but when he recovers and aims an assault rifle at Roxana, fourteen-year-old Eileen channels her police officer mother's training and kills him with three precise shots.
The aftermath reveals the girls have been under secret government protection for months by a multi-agency task force, and the incident gets sanitized with an FBI agent taking credit for the shooting.
Ella's diary entry captures the disturbing psychological reality: she wasn't scared during the attack—she was thrilled, excited by the power, wanting to 'fist-pump' when the attacker went down.
Meanwhile, Eileen sits catatonic, not yet processing that she killed someone, while Helana describes the shooter's mind as 'black—a bottomless void,' suggesting he was mind-controlled rather than acting alone.
Brandt masterfully explores how supernatural abilities can't protect you from the psychological trauma of violence, even when you're saving lives.