188 Like O’sihn and Laida, Ossihanna and O’sirof were a married commanding head.
189 They had not brought the standard communicators they had available, since they would have been easily detected by Establishment forces.
190 The attack had leveled the triangular constructions to their bases, leaving a flat vitreous field all the way up to about thirty feet from the trans-universal chamber. In being bathed with radiation, the energy deflection from the chamber’s walls had generated a mound of crystallized debris with a uniform slope all around the chamber.
191 When bathed with radiation, the chamber had automatically created a singularity in its own reality in order to shelter its content. The purpose of the singularity was to generate a mini parallel universe of the same kind outside its parent universe. It could only be maintained for a few minutes, but it was more than what Clara needed to be isolated from the high radiation levels of the attack.
192 The surface of the mound was not as smooth as the rest of the field, since it had crystallized with a corrugated pattern due to eddies produced by the energy deflection from the chamber. This enabled Erina and Duncan to climb the mound, with some effort.
193 Erina and Duncan had been instructed how to operate the system on board the Intrepid.
194 In order to establish a connection between universes, the system would search for transuniversal brain activity. Such activity was strong in Duncan due to his extremely rare quickener attributes. This alone might have been sufficient to operate the chamber, regardless of which universe was his native universe.
195 Erina noticed the vision but, from her reaction, it seems it did not make a big impression on her. She probably took it as an illusion produced by the active chamber.
196 Child-quickening inclusive realization has its antithesis in the either-orness of a grown-up mind.
197 Psamosites are minerals similar to what in our universe would be classified as silicates. The high energy levels of the plasma attack had crystallized the psamositerich surface around the chamber. The crystallization process continued beyond the energy irradiation event. Gradually, the surface was getting smoother and more slippery.
198 The device was used for eating as well, although in rare occasions.
199 The synthetic skin could generate an “ontological image” of the interior of a human body, perfectly mimicking all human organs and their functions. The female wearing the synthetic skin had always refused invasive medical tests that could have risked exposing her true identity, her decision having always been respected.
200 The chamber had attempted to project Erina’s, or rather Em-Rasinka’s, reality into Earth’s reality. But it had been disconnected from Duncan’s influence, after he had abandoned the chamber. The anomalous process that ensued resulted in a lack of cohesion of the molecular structure in Em-Rasinka’s body, which started a slow disintegration process or defoliation.
201 The Realdom’s sign of victory consisted of putting both forearms arms on one’s chest in the shape of an X, fists closed.
About the Author
Author Daniel Liut is an aeronautical engineer with a PhD in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech. He has always had an interest in science, languages, and philosophy, as well as a passion for fantasy and science fiction. His love for nature occasionally takes him skiing, or surfing the mild waves of the Delaware beaches. But it is at home, by the Chesapeake Bay, where both family and nature merge as a quiet source of inspiration.
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