Her hypothesis is at first rejected, and she showered with rape and death threats, also fuelled by racism and sexism since she is a Senegalese woman.
Gabrielle eventually realizes that the other side of the Pane is again their original position and that it showed them an 67,000 year of snapshot of the night sky within.
Fatima and Gabrielle immediately go back to their observation of the phenomenon, to find it again, if it's natural, or create it themselves one day, if it's artificial.
"[3] Victoria Silverwolf wrote on Tangent Online, that "full appreciation of the premise requires familiarity with many concepts of modern astrophysics", which has "a true sense of wonder, describing an amazing event with rigid scientific logic."
"[4] Sam Tomaino wrote on SF Revu, that "the explanation for what [the Pane] is makes for a very imaginative story" and that it "it has well-drawn characters, too."