Such hopes were ended quite brutally when a fragmented young lockette stumbled out of Myrkvid with an armful of papers and a saura jar clutched in their hand.

The young lockette’s identity remains unknown, as records pertaining to them were sealed by the government of the Heartlands for her privacy.  What is known, however, are the contents of the papers they brought, and the saura jar they carried.

The government intended to deal with it in an organized and discreet manner.

It is unknown who, exactly, leaked the details of the papers and the information about the saura jar - but it destroyed any hopes of discretion.

The next ten days would be best described as a bloodbath.

Humans were slaughtered indiscriminately across much of Maquette.  Lockettes in Dimensa guarded a doorway there to allow the humans there to escape - and guarded it for the full ten days to prevent others from following them to enact vengeance on Earth itself.  Dexettes in Lunarimar, in spite of what humans had done on their planet, sheltered humans from Anchorage within their sphere.  It is possible individual lockettes within the Heartlands may have sheltered some humans… but by and large, every human within that sphere was killed.  The condition of the handful of spheres humans had created is unknown, and it is suspected they may have unwisely cut off all methods of entry and exit and thus destroyed the sphere (or cut it off from Maquette, though most think those are the same thing).

Peace did not come till every human within Maquette was either dead or in hiding, and most known doorways to Earth were destroyed or impossible to reach.

Most spheres proceeded to pass laws regulating the presence of humans within Maquette and their numbers where they were allowed - most spheres chose to allow none, save for Malpais, where the casinos of Andara cried out at the idea of turning away anyone who wished to gamble.  Even Malpais, however, created regulations about human inhabitation, though not visitation.  Lunarimar was the sole exception, refusing to entertain such laws even in the face of pressure from other spheres as well as Aerius itself.  Most spheres eventually decided such pressure was pointless, as Lunarimar was situated over Aerius, rather than Earth, and thus could not even be the site of a doorway to humans.

Most spheres also repealed much of their legislation against inked and possessed lockettes, as public sentiment on them had shifted dramatically with the papers brought by that escaped lockette.  Inked lockettes had been victims of humans in larger numbers than anything except wandering saura, their slowness rendering them vulnerable.  (The suggestion from human research that inked saura was different from regular saura, rather than being possessed, smoothed the way for them greatly).  Possessed lockettes had been vulnerable in their own right - and those who had not been vulnerable had proven to be tremendous assets against the handfuls of true resistance from humans who dared to fight lockettes.  Despite protests and violence from many diehard adherents of the Artisinal religions, these laws passed.