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Fountain of Youth

The teleporter failed again . . . I thought.

This time we were careless. I didn’t pay attention to detail. Alice didn’t think to double check my calculations.

Of course, this time I stumbled upon something profound.

The test subject didn’t leave the initial chamber. I noticed Wally sitting in the confines of ‘Chamber A’ without a care in the world. He seemed a bit bigger than before. The tests later that night would show that he was twenty percent bigger and heavier, and roughly twentyone weeks older.

Needless to say we were more than surprised when the NSA came knocking and asking questions about our knowledge and unauthorized creation of class B wormholes.

You see our research was more on the side of class A wormholes, but the ones that we had inadvertently created looped back in on themselves taking on the appearance of seven disconnected sideways eights or infinity symbols if you will.

That’s what the Q foam impression told us. The loops seemed separate from each other, but were somehow connected.

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