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This is Johan.
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I'm the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica.
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I'm um signing in for yet another cold shift.
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Tonight has been well nothing short of bizarre.
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I mean the strangest thing happened.
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So tonight I woke up, um as I always do, luckily, to the sound of my uh ukulele being played.
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It's a nice way to wake up, to be honest, and and it was, you know, my ukulele sounds pretty great.
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But when my brain left the state of being half awake, half asleep, I thought, wait a minute, you know, who who's playing my ukulele?
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So I sat up and looked straight into what I first thought was a mirror.
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Because sitting on the end of my bed playing my ukulele was me.
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Different clothes, but still very much uh me.
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Good evening, he said.
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He said it in Norwegian, but I will retell it translated, you know, in case you great divers from the far future are a team of international researchers, yeah.
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So anyway, I I replied to myself, uh I said, What?
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And he told me not to worry, uh that he understood my confusion.
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You know, he was too once.
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So I said, Thank you for understanding, but who are you?
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I am me, he said.
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Nothing short of exactly that.
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Which made sense, you know, I am me also.
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So I gave him a compliment on how well he played the ukulele, uh, because one can be both impressed and confused at the same time.
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So I told him, you know, I I I still don't understand though, uh are you a copy?
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No, he said.
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So I asked him, Are you a robot built by Thomas Grind, you know?
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Oh no, no, no, he said, I I really hope not.
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Are you?
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he asked.
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Which is a question I I haven't thought about until I asked it or he asked it.
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And I said, I I also hope not.
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I said, I mean, I put salt on my food.
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I don't think a machine would cope with salt, you know.
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Ingrid sure doesn't.
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But I am you, he said.
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But not you you, he said, uh you are you and I am I so I rubbed my eyes for a bit to give myself time to think without looking more confused, and then I said, What?
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What?
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So he told me that during an annual subparticle reset the fuse imploded and he hit his head and everything went dark.
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Later he woke up in the kitchen area.
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The kitchen area he first mistook for his kitchen area, but the kitchen area he soon realized was very different from the one he was used to.
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So thinking he was overworked, or you know, perhaps he had hit his head during the subparticle reset, he went to bed.
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Turns out he said I had been redirected to this place.
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So I asked him when was this?
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It's quite a good old time ago, he said.
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Which is strange, because you know why haven't we met?
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I I asked him that, why haven't we met?
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Which is because he he had been hiding, he told me.
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So asked why did you have to hide?
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And he said, I reckon you have met Thomas Grind.
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You you hid from Thomas Grind, I asked him.
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So he said, Do you know what Thomas would do if he knew I was here?
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No.
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I said no, no.
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Exactly, he said.
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That is what he did.
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And now I have a phrase I use in situations just like these, which is what?
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And then he said, you know, have you noticed any changes around here?
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What kind of changes?
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I asked.
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And as soon as I asked, Thomas knocked on the door.
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Which is very rare.
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I could hear it was Thomas because he has a very distinct knock, so to speak.
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And uh the copy of me uh to duplicate your um or you're gonna duplicate, I don't know.
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He dropped to the floor, removed the lid from the ventilation underneath my desk, and he he crawled inside it.
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And he he said, you know, keep your cards close to the chest, he said.
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And then disappeared just in time for Thomas to open the door and stick his head in my room and have a look around.
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He said, You should ventilate, he said.
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I I will, I told him.
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Then he asked him, he said, I require the particle entanglement entangler.
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I need your half of the code.
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So I I told him what the code was, and he didn't even say thank you.
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He just had another look around the room and left.
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Didn't even close the door.
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So I closed the door before checking the ventilation shaft, you know, but it was empty.
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No sign of of the copy, the duplicate Yaran.
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Oh Yaran the duplicate.
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So I thought, you know, was this a dream?
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But then it struck me because it it all made perfect sense.
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Was this duplicate version of me?
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You duplicate Yaran or Yaran the duplicate, is he the culprit in the mystery surrounding the visitor to my room?
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If it wasn't a dream and I see him again, I will ask.
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But that doesn't mean I can't solve them.
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The rest of the night was was weird.
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Uh my focus was scattered all over the place.
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It was looking for signs of uh Yaranda Duplicate or duplicate Yaran.
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I I'll just call them Yaranda Duplicate.
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I think it clings better.
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Ooh.
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Perhaps I could ask him if he wants to make music together with me.
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I could use a bass player.
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Oh, that would be fun to be in a band with oneself.
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You know, would agree on everything.
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I will do that.
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Anyway, he didn't show up, and uh I found no signs of him whatsoever.
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Does he live in a ventilation system?
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How is that possible?
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How long has he been up there for?
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So as I went through the hallway, knocking on the walls to find any caveats, uh you know, is it that caveats?
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Holes in the wall.
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When I did that, all of a sudden, Frederick came into view in one of the mirrors.
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I noticed by him telling me, you missed many spots.
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And I was I was so happy to see him that he was doing good.
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Uh you know, at least it looks like he was doing good.
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And I I would like to give him a hug, but it it's it's a mirror, it would look weird.
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But I told him, Dude, there is a copy of me behind these walls.
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I told him.
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Yeah, there are endless copies of everyone, everywhere, he said.
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So I looked at him because what what a funny thing to say.
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Are you somehow connected to the research that went on here during the first part of the war?
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I asked Frederick.
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Well, he said, I'm connected to the failures of the research.
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What failures?
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I asked.
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Just one, but that was more than enough, he said.
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Is that why you live in the mirror?
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Yes, he said, but it's not that bad.
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And did it really research time travel?
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I asked.
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No, not at all, he said.
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So I I I dug on, you know.
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But but block theory, I said, you know, the the past, present, and future exists all at once.
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I said, you know.
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Then he sat down, he said, you know, time was never the problem, he said, which is what they all failed to comprehend.
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He cleared his throat and you know, he's gonna start talking more.
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And he said, block theory was just the initial catalyst, or catalysator, or whatever.
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Block theory was just the initial catalyst for the project down here, he said.
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Its properties are not really that useful.
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They wanted to prevent the war by locating the exact point in history that sparked the events.
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They were mostly determinists, quite radical ones too, he said.
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And nothing happened independently, so by eliminating free will from any equation, morality was just another construct they could deny.
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What did they do to you?
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I asked.
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He said, you know, I'm just a facility manager, he said.
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So I interrupted him and I said, Hey, I am too.
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We both are, he said.
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Which isn't always a good thing.
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But I was eager, and you know, I started to things were afoot, so I asked, but but but but the sphere, I said, you know, Joshua had a lot of notes on the sphere.
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Do you know what it is?
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Not particularly he said, but the researchers called it residue.
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But they ignored it, being too blinded by the results.
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So why did it appear?
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I asked.
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Well, because tapping into the constraints of reality is it's like smashing a gingerbread house with a hammer, then trying to rebuild it just as it was.
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Do this over and over and over and over, and the gingerbread house will begin to look quite funky, he said.
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And there will be lots of crumbs left, I said.
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I love gingerbread.
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Frederick does too, he told me that I love gingerbread, he said.
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So we sat there just thinking about gingerbread for a while.
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But I I continued, you know.
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So I said, but according to Joshua, I said the sphere was growing.
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Why did it grow?
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I asked.
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Well, because they never stopped smashing the house, Frederick said.
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But the sphere just appeared recently, I said, you know, there are no researchers here now.
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Well that's not entirely true, Frederick said.
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Thomas is a researcher.
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Joshua was a researcher, and who knows what's behind a red door.
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Which was another thing I had wanted to discuss with Frederick, you know, I tried before.
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So I asked, what do you know about the red door?
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Then Frederick got this shadow across his face.
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Well, there was a time when I tried to figure that out for myself, Frederick said.
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I should have left it alone.
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But it's so strange, I said, you know, when I first met Thomas, the the red door was wide open, I said.
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Which should have left you in a perpetual state of fear, Frederick said.
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Am I safe?
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I asked.
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If you do your job, you might be.
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Will you stay here for a bit?
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I asked Frederick.
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I'm quite alone these days, I said.
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Yeah, I will, Frederick said.
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Oh also the duplicate is a cool dude too.
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And after that I had to complete my work for the night, and we said goodbye for now.
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And thinking back on the night that was, I'm I'm not sure what kind of part I am in what kind of machinery, you know.
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Is it a good machinery?
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Or or is it a city stomp world-ending brute?
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Anyways, I'm I have two new friends, as it turns out, which is nice.
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Also, when fixing the door on the shed in the pantry, I noticed a hatch in the floor.
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And under it, I found a box.
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In the box, sealed in airtight bags, fresh coffee.
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I mean, it might snow every day down here, but Christmas came twice this year.
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So I cleaned the coffee maker, I brewed a fresh pot, knocked on Thomas Gaines' door and gave him a cup, and he actually smiled for the first time in a long time and shook my hand.
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And two of the bags I reserved for Chef George and Alexander Voss on board Emma Swalbach.
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And uh, you know, it's it's just amazing how much light something so dark can bring.
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Man, I love coffee.
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And I love my ukulele.
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I'm currently I'm currently writing another song these days too, so if you'll indulge me, oh great divers from the past, present, and and future, and I will give you a little taste of it.
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Okay?
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Here it goes.
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I wonder what roses smells like Will I ever know?
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I'm wondering if rain feels cold, will they let me go?
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I wish I could get a hold on you to keep you out of fire, out of fire, yeah, and hide you here with me.
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Something along those lines.
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And I will ask the the copy version, Jan, the duplicate, if he wants to join too.
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That would be fun, but I'm I'm enjoying it anyways.
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With fresh coffee kicks in, you know, creativity flows, man.
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Still doesn't keep me from getting tired.
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It's been a long day, a weird day.
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So I think um I think that's it for now.
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I think I'll tune out as uh as it were.
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So yeah.
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This is your
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This is Johan.
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I'm the facility manager at the Deep Earth Anomaly Department located on the coastal strip in East Antarctica.
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I'm um signing in for yet another cold shift.
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Tonight has been well nothing short of bizarre.
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I mean the strangest thing happened.
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So tonight I woke up, um as I always do, luckily, to the sound of my uh ukulele being played.
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It's a nice way to wake up, to be honest, and and it was, you know, my ukulele sounds pretty great.
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But when my brain left the state of being half awake, half asleep, I thought, wait a minute, you know, who who's playing my ukulele?
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So I sat up and looked straight into what I first thought was a mirror.
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Because sitting on the end of my bed playing my ukulele was me.
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Different clothes, but still very much uh me.
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Good evening, he said.
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He said it in Norwegian, but I will retell it translated, you know, in case you great divers from the far future are a team of international researchers, yeah.
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So anyway, I I replied to myself, uh I said, What?
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And he told me not to worry, uh that he understood my confusion.
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You know, he was too once.
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So I said, Thank you for understanding, but who are you?
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I am me, he said.
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Nothing short of exactly that.
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Which made sense, you know, I am me also.
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So I gave him a compliment on how well he played the ukulele, uh, because one can be both impressed and confused at the same time.
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So I told him, you know, I I I still don't understand though, uh are you a copy?
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No, he said.
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So I asked him, Are you a robot built by Thomas Grind, you know?
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Oh no, no, no, he said, I I really hope not.
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Are you?
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he asked.
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Which is a question I I haven't thought about until I asked it or he asked it.
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And I said, I I also hope not.
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I said, I mean, I put salt on my food.
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I don't think a machine would cope with salt, you know.
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Ingrid sure doesn't.
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But I am you, he said.
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But not you you, he said, uh you are you and I am I so I rubbed my eyes for a bit to give myself time to think without looking more confused, and then I said, What?
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What?
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So he told me that during an annual subparticle reset the fuse imploded and he hit his head and everything went dark.
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Later he woke up in the kitchen area.
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The kitchen area he first mistook for his kitchen area, but the kitchen area he soon realized was very different from the one he was used to.
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So thinking he was overworked, or you know, perhaps he had hit his head during the subparticle reset, he went to bed.
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Turns out he said I had been redirected to this place.
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So I asked him when was this?
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It's quite a good old time ago, he said.
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Which is strange, because you know why haven't we met?
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I I asked him that, why haven't we met?
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Which is because he he had been hiding, he told me.
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So asked why did you have to hide?
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And he said, I reckon you have met Thomas Grind.
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You you hid from Thomas Grind, I asked him.
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So he said, Do you know what Thomas would do if he knew I was here?
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No.
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I said no, no.
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Exactly, he said.
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That is what he did.
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And now I have a phrase I use in situations just like these, which is what?
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And then he said, you know, have you noticed any changes around here?
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What kind of changes?
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I asked.
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And as soon as I asked, Thomas knocked on the door.
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Which is very rare.
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I could hear it was Thomas because he has a very distinct knock, so to speak.
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And uh the copy of me uh to duplicate your um or you're gonna duplicate, I don't know.
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He dropped to the floor, removed the lid from the ventilation underneath my desk, and he he crawled inside it.
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And he he said, you know, keep your cards close to the chest, he said.
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And then disappeared just in time for Thomas to open the door and stick his head in my room and have a look around.
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He said, You should ventilate, he said.
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I I will, I told him.
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Then he asked him, he said, I require the particle entanglement entangler.
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I need your half of the code.
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So I I told him what the code was, and he didn't even say thank you.
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He just had another look around the room and left.
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Didn't even close the door.
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So I closed the door before checking the ventilation shaft, you know, but it was empty.
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No sign of of the copy, the duplicate Yaran.
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Oh Yaran the duplicate.
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So I thought, you know, was this a dream?
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But then it struck me because it it all made perfect sense.
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Was this duplicate version of me?
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You duplicate Yaran or Yaran the duplicate, is he the culprit in the mystery surrounding the visitor to my room?
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If it wasn't a dream and I see him again, I will ask.
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But that doesn't mean I can't solve them.
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The rest of the night was was weird.
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Uh my focus was scattered all over the place.
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It was looking for signs of uh Yaranda Duplicate or duplicate Yaran.
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I I'll just call them Yaranda Duplicate.
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I think it clings better.
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Ooh.
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Perhaps I could ask him if he wants to make music together with me.
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I could use a bass player.
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Oh, that would be fun to be in a band with oneself.
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You know, would agree on everything.
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I will do that.
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Anyway, he didn't show up, and uh I found no signs of him whatsoever.
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Does he live in a ventilation system?
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How is that possible?
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How long has he been up there for?
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So as I went through the hallway, knocking on the walls to find any caveats, uh you know, is it that caveats?
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Holes in the wall.
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When I did that, all of a sudden, Frederick came into view in one of the mirrors.
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I noticed by him telling me, you missed many spots.
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And I was I was so happy to see him that he was doing good.
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Uh you know, at least it looks like he was doing good.
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And I I would like to give him a hug, but it it's it's a mirror, it would look weird.
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But I told him, Dude, there is a copy of me behind these walls.
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I told him.
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Yeah, there are endless copies of everyone, everywhere, he said.
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So I looked at him because what what a funny thing to say.
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Are you somehow connected to the research that went on here during the first part of the war?
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I asked Frederick.
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Well, he said, I'm connected to the failures of the research.
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What failures?
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I asked.
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Just one, but that was more than enough, he said.
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Is that why you live in the mirror?
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Yes, he said, but it's not that bad.
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And did it really research time travel?
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I asked.
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No, not at all, he said.
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So I I I dug on, you know.
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But but block theory, I said, you know, the the past, present, and future exists all at once.
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I said, you know.
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Then he sat down, he said, you know, time was never the problem, he said, which is what they all failed to comprehend.
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He cleared his throat and you know, he's gonna start talking more.
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And he said, block theory was just the initial catalyst, or catalysator, or whatever.
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Block theory was just the initial catalyst for the project down here, he said.
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Its properties are not really that useful.
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They wanted to prevent the war by locating the exact point in history that sparked the events.
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They were mostly determinists, quite radical ones too, he said.
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And nothing happened independently, so by eliminating free will from any equation, morality was just another construct they could deny.
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What did they do to you?
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I asked.
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He said, you know, I'm just a facility manager, he said.
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So I interrupted him and I said, Hey, I am too.
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We both are, he said.
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Which isn't always a good thing.
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But I was eager, and you know, I started to things were afoot, so I asked, but but but but the sphere, I said, you know, Joshua had a lot of notes on the sphere.
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Do you know what it is?
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Not particularly he said, but the researchers called it residue.
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But they ignored it, being too blinded by the results.
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So why did it appear?
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I asked.
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Well, because tapping into the constraints of reality is it's like smashing a gingerbread house with a hammer, then trying to rebuild it just as it was.
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Do this over and over and over and over, and the gingerbread house will begin to look quite funky, he said.
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And there will be lots of crumbs left, I said.
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I love gingerbread.
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Frederick does too, he told me that I love gingerbread, he said.
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So we sat there just thinking about gingerbread for a while.
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But I I continued, you know.
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So I said, but according to Joshua, I said the sphere was growing.
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Why did it grow?
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I asked.
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Well, because they never stopped smashing the house, Frederick said.
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But the sphere just appeared recently, I said, you know, there are no researchers here now.
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Well that's not entirely true, Frederick said.
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Thomas is a researcher.
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Joshua was a researcher, and who knows what's behind a red door.
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Which was another thing I had wanted to discuss with Frederick, you know, I tried before.
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So I asked, what do you know about the red door?
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Then Frederick got this shadow across his face.
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Well, there was a time when I tried to figure that out for myself, Frederick said.
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I should have left it alone.
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But it's so strange, I said, you know, when I first met Thomas, the the red door was wide open, I said.
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Which should have left you in a perpetual state of fear, Frederick said.
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Am I safe?
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I asked.
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If you do your job, you might be.
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Will you stay here for a bit?
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I asked Frederick.
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I'm quite alone these days, I said.
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Yeah, I will, Frederick said.
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Oh also the duplicate is a cool dude too.
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And after that I had to complete my work for the night, and we said goodbye for now.
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And thinking back on the night that was, I'm I'm not sure what kind of part I am in what kind of machinery, you know.
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Is it a good machinery?
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Or or is it a city stomp world-ending brute?
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Anyways, I'm I have two new friends, as it turns out, which is nice.
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Also, when fixing the door on the shed in the pantry, I noticed a hatch in the floor.
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And under it, I found a box.
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In the box, sealed in airtight bags, fresh coffee.
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I mean, it might snow every day down here, but Christmas came twice this year.
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So I cleaned the coffee maker, I brewed a fresh pot, knocked on Thomas Gaines' door and gave him a cup, and he actually smiled for the first time in a long time and shook my hand.
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And two of the bags I reserved for Chef George and Alexander Voss on board Emma Swalbach.
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And uh, you know, it's it's just amazing how much light something so dark can bring.
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Man, I love coffee.
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And I love my ukulele.
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I'm currently I'm currently writing another song these days too, so if you'll indulge me, oh great divers from the past, present, and and future, and I will give you a little taste of it.
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Okay?
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Here it goes.
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I wonder what roses smells like Will I ever know?
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I'm wondering if rain feels cold, will they let me go?
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I wish I could get a hold on you to keep you out of fire, out of fire, yeah, and hide you here with me.
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Something along those lines.
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And I will ask the the copy version, Jan, the duplicate, if he wants to join too.
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That would be fun, but I'm I'm enjoying it anyways.
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With fresh coffee kicks in, you know, creativity flows, man.
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Still doesn't keep me from getting tired.
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It's been a long day, a weird day.
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So I think um I think that's it for now.
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I think I'll tune out as uh as it were.
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So yeah.
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This is your
