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finished tamping, slipped his foot into a waiting boot, then lit
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the pipe with the anachronistic lighter in his left hand. He
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puffed, drew in smoke, exhaled, put the lighter in his pocket,
with your name,
and settled back in the walnut embrace of his chair.
address and
credit card
"I am Dr. Li," he said. said the left hand, the old information.
finger position for a now-obsolete palmtop computer, a finger
position that had once meant pause, as had once
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meant enter, enter because it was correct. "Please remain in
bed for a few more minutes while the nanos doublecheck their
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work. Redundancy is frustrating," puffing smoke, "but good for
peace of mind."
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"What happens if they find theyтАЩve made a mistake?" Walter Jon
Williams,
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Li, "or we wouldnтАЩt be communicating so rationally. At worst,

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you will sleep for a bit while things are corrected."
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"May I take my hands out from under the covers?" he asked.
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"Yes."

Davout did so. His hands, he observed, were brown and
leathery, hands suitable for the hot, dry world of Sarpedon.
They had not, then, changed his body for one more suited to
Earth, but given him something familiar.

If, he realized, they were on Earth.

His right fingers made the mudra .

signed Li.

Davout passed a hand over his forehead, discovered that the

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