            Hermione nodded and toyed with the sheet of parchment sitting before her. She had moved onto step two of her process—How to safely pass to and from the Edge—and had spent her two hours before the coffee break diving into the new branch of research. To her surprise, she had found an interesting piece of information rather quickly. "Yes, actually. I came across some ancient method of keeping herd animals in contact with their shepherd, even through the vastest of distances. This ritual is supposed to bind the animal to the human with some kind of elastic, magic rope. The wizard called it Laqueus—that’s Latin for tether, I think. Only I don’t know the details of the ritual, or if it could even be applied between two humans. Or work through the Veil."