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But it only makes sense, to try to correct the longevity
problem firstЧthis isn't self-indulgence, believe me. There
are other futures at stake, such as a certain shirty little
redhead named 5(SC1), seven years old. The little pest popped
up at my elbow yesterday as I was rechecking those med.
reportsЧyou tend to dwell on a thing like that. I guess 1
wasn't thinking when he asked me, "What's ELS mean?"
I told him, "Estimated Life Span."
"And ours stinks, huh?" He gave me that mickey grin,
but his young-old eyes were slightly tarnished. He's already
listening to the rattle of the dice.

So I have to go ahead with the trials. I've got to test my
theory, make or break, and I'm sorry if it ruins Eddinger's
day. But that's why I don't want him reading over my
shoulder. 1 will leave instructions so the code is available
when it's all over. In case I'm not around or something.
Enough documentation?
Flashing: PROCEED.

PRELim, 1

The breakthrough came with the fifth mouse.

I never really expect a test program to work the first time,
and it didn't. Subject went into shock and expired before
I could abort. They don't make mice like they used to. Or
maybe the machine came on too strongЧI reduced the
power. ^

Even though I built it, the refractor- intimidates me. It
looks ominous, like a man-eating garbage unit with yawn-
ing wingsЧtwo huge panels of an alloy developed by
K/CЧ3. Electromagnetic impulses flow between them,
picking up speedЧthe physics is difficult to explain. Three
must have sprained a synapse to perfect the diode that
activates the thing. Basically the machine operates the way
a prism does when it separates a beam of light into com-
ponent colors. Except this refractor is designed to disas-
semble living matter and bend it into a different time frame,
where it will automatically reassemble. I think.

At least it sent the second mouse somewhere. Looking

slightly dismayed, he dissolved off the spot where I'd placed
him, leaving me with my Jaw unhinged. 1 guess up until
then 1 hadn't really believed it would work. Excitement
broke out all over me like an allergyЧnow I just needed
to prove that I could reverse the process. 1 punched the
button and gotЧexactly nothing.