"What place is this exactly"? Xander asked.
"This is my Lab." Hm. Torya declared.
"You kept the wormhole in your lab" Xander was indeed surprised. For some reason he had imagined that the government had confiscated or something that tiny wormhole something. Maybe because that's exactly how things would have turned out on earth.
"One end of it." She declared.
"The other end is with the national head of security. They allowed me to keep one end to honor my work." She explained.
"What if someone tried to copy your work for personal gain"? Xander asked.
"It's prohibited. As long as I'm alive, my work must be my own." Hm. Torya explained.
"Why"? Xander was a bit confused and skeptical.
"Cause that's how it is. It's a tribute we give to the inventor of any new inventions." Hm. Torya explained. "It's illegal to dishonor the tribute."
"That sounds like a twisted version of the patent" Xander mumbled.