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part with it?”
    Teague smiled. “Then I kill myself.”
    Alter-Sata almost wished he would do that right now just to stop this inane conversation, which had been going in circles since they’d left the tea stand.
    “Can you explain the whole dark version thing to me again? If you don’t mind.”
    I do mind,
Alter-Sata thought.
But this idiot might be useful, so I need to humor him.
    “There are infinite alternate universes with infinite versions of you—”
    “Including a Dino Teague on the Dino Earth.”
    “Yes. Please don’t interrupt. There is—”
    “Sorry.”
    “You just interrupted again.”
    Teague opened his mouth, but blessedly stopped himself from speaking.
    “There is also,” Alter-Sata continued, “dark matter in each of these infinite universes, and using the TEV, I’ve been able to make that dark matter visible. Through my genius I’ve managed to illuminate, and exist alongside, that dark matter, and discovered another hidden universe within each universe that directly corresponds with ours.”
    “Sort of like an opposite land.”
    “More like a superpartner land, where ever particle has an exact counterpart which directly corresponds to ours. Oddly enough, this dark matter universe is several hours ahead of us. What happens there eventually happens here.”
     
    “So there’s a Dark Teague.”
    “Yes.”
    “Could I take his hand? Or if I touch him, will I explode?”
    “You’re confusing dark matter with anti-matter.”
    “Is there an Anti-matter Teague as well?”
    “There might be.”
    “You don the antidote for the nanopoisonm ” Phin saidG’t know?”
    Alter-Sata sighed again. “I invented a device that records the past, then tweaked that device to travel to other dimensions within the multiverse, then tweaked it again to discover a dark world within our own universe. I think I can safely leave the discovery of
Anti-matter Teague
to someone else.” He mentally added,
you gigantic moron.
    “So let’s get back to this infinite universes thing again,” Teague said.
    “You don’t grasp it yet?”
    “If there are infinite parallel worlds, with infinite variations, anything I can dream up must exist.”
    “Yes.”
    “So there’s an earth where I’m king of the world, being constantly serviced by SLPs who have four boobs.”
    Alter-Sata shrugged. “Sure. Whatever.”
    “So how can I go there?”
    “That’s the difficult part. I’ve been trying to tweak UFSE to search appropriate worlds, but it takes a while to search infinity.”
    “How long does it take?”
    “Forever.”
    “Maybe there’s a world where UFSE is able to search infinity faster.”
    And maybe you’re an idiot.
    Alter-Sata forced his voice to remain steady. “Let’s assume the laws of physics are universal, even though they may weigh differently in alternate dimensions. But even if there were a dimension where gravity were stronger than, say, electromagnetic force, I’m pretty sure infinity is infinity no matter where you go.”
    “Is there a world where gravity is stronger than electromagnetic force?”
    “I don’t know.”
But there must be a world where you’re not this stupid. Maybe I shall kill you and visit that world. And then possibly search for that planet where women had four boobs. It certainly has possibilities…
    “Sata-san? Did you hear me?”
    “Hmm?”
    “Isn’t that us?”
    Teague pointed with his stump at two men on the greenwalk. And Alter-Sata was surprised to see it was, indeed, another Sata and another Teague, walking at a quick clip toward them.
    “Well, isn’t this interesting,” Alter-Sata said.

Chapter 6
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