Ambassador

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Author: William Alexander
of such meetings in dreams. But first I have to do a little more tinkering and adjust the field of recoherence.” It moved across the concrete floor, picked up a few metal pieces of washing machine, and swallowed them.
    â€œStill hungry?” Gabe asked. “I can probably find you more baking soda.”
    The Envoy shook its mouth. “I’m sustained, thank you,” it said. “I’m partially digesting these metals in order to shift their molecules into more useful combinations, and not because I’m hungry.”
    â€œOh,” said Gabe. He sat on the basement steps andwatched, fascinated, while the metal pieces changed color inside the Envoy. It pushed them out, added them to the device of entanglement, and absorbed other pieces to work strange changes on. Then it took a breath and shifted to keep the pocket of air separate from the floating pieces of metal.
    â€œThis is we how we will entangle you,” it said. “First we’ll embed tiny particles inside you—most especially in the skin of your eyelids, the surface of your eardrums, and all along your spine. Then we will entangle those particles and propel their identical twins through the tiny black hole I will make in your clothes dryer.”
    â€œYou can make a black hole in the dryer?”
    â€œYes,” said the Envoy. “Please do not stand too close to it.”
    â€œCan I throw something at it and watch what happens?” Gabe asked.
    â€œNo,” said the Envoy. “It will be very precisely calibrated.”
    â€œNot even little scraps of paper or balls of dryer lint or something like that?”
    The Envoy cleared its long, purple throat. “Please do not throw anything at the black hole! Accounting for the air and dust motes is hard enough. It will remember everything it absorbs. We have to sneak the particles ofyour entanglement through that attention, avoiding its notice. Once the entangled particles pass through the black hole, they’ll travel between the ninth and tenth dimensions of our universe, skim across the surface of an adjacent universe, shift in and out of places where neither space nor distance currently exist, and finally arrive at the Embassy. You might have some very strange dreams before they arrive. Try not to be alarmed by your dreams.”
    â€œOkay,” said Gabe. “I’ll try. I never really remember my dreams anyway.”
    â€œYou’ll remember these,” the Envoy said. “Once the particles reach the Embassy, they’ll form a precisely entangled duplicate of your perception and awareness. You’ll see, hear, and move as though actually there, even though the Embassy is twenty-five thousand light-years away in the very center of the galaxy.”
    â€œI thought there was a really big black hole at the center of the galaxy,” said Gabe. He was the sort of kid who knew such things.
    â€œThere is,” said the Envoy. “The Embassy is perched on the very edge.” It added molecularly modified pieces of dryer to the rest of the device. “We’re ready to begin. The device is ready, at least. Are you ready?”
    â€œWill it hurt?” Gabe asked, though he didn’t feel worried.
    â€œNot very much,” the Envoy said.
    Gabe felt a bit worried now. “Is it safe?” he pressed.
    â€œNo,” said the Envoy. “Definitely not. Nothing is safe. Neither food nor playgrounds nor standing where meteors might land on you—which is anywhere and everywhere—is ever safe. There’s no such quality as safe. Instead there is trust. We’ve only just met, you and I, so I understand if we don’t yet have enough trust between us. We can delay your entanglement. But if you wish to accept this post to help protect your world and every form of life residing on it, then you must become entangled. And given that we have strange ships in the asteroid belt, I really do encourage you to
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