Socratea was a midwife residing in Alexandria in the first century. Her husband was Telemachus, the famed physician, and together they concocted thousands of medicinal recipes, some of which survive to this day.
According to legend, when Socratea and Telemachus were experimenting with elixirs in an attempt to cure an aristocrat's gout, she drank a particularly noxious tea and fell into a deathlike trance that lasted five years.
Upon waking--some say by inhaling ambient eucalyptus vapor-- she told of a secret realm that could not be tarnished by mere words, and spent the rest of her life painting fantastic imagery to describe the world she'd seen.
So pleased was her husband by her return that he spent untold sums supplying her with paint and papyri in order to document her fantastical exile.
The art of Socratea has been lost in time, but an updated system of [Russian] remote viewing has been implemented in order to reproduce her works, and also to glimpse the universe she touched so briefly before becoming utterly consumed by it....
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