(Characters: Diana, Lucien
Settings: Reloj de Sol Astronomical Laboratories, Balmaceda Campus. Hour uncertain.)
Diana: In the fluorescence one can see it come up and out sort of like a flower blossoming.
Lucien: Is it what iodine.
Diana: Formaldehyde.
Lucien: Better not light up I guess.
Diana: Suit yourself it doesn’t really oh look at that.
Lucien: A blossom or a or a rocket burst you’re right.
Diana: And the black of the edges appears to be more pronounced the further the edge drifts from the center.
Lucien: What’s the feathery shape.
Diana: It’s half hidden but.
Lucien: Not a stem something almost.
Diana: Decorative.
Lucien: Right a tip or pinna spire.
Diana: I’m not sure but we might need to refer to the original.
Lucien: I thought the originals had been returned.
Diana: Well they have but I asked Tetsuo to copy the first and fifth of each series.
Lucien: First and last.
Diana: Right the first and last.
Lucien: And it’s okay if we do that.
Diana: Internally I don’t think we’re out of line but I wouldn’t advertise the fact.
Lucien: So Sibiril’s chemists or whoever so they don’t know.
Diana: Not that I know of I’m pretty sure they think copies aren’t even possible.
Lucien: It puts us in a bind if we find anything.
Diana: If we find anything yes.
Lucien: Do we just pretend it was there all along I mean in the unedited version.
Diana: They’d have to know exactly what we were looking for.
Lucien: So edited unedited.
Diana: Yes I don’t think it matters quite so much what we’re looking at just what we’re looking for.
Lucien: I’m in over my head the theory.
Diana: It’s simple really but I’m not going to explain it here it’s nothing to worry about.
Lucien: I’ll trust you on that.
Diana: Good.
Lucien: I’d love to know what’s behind the nimbus though.
Diana: Whatever it is it wasn’t there long.
Lucien: Long enough to send a warning.
Diana: The ghost that cried ‘wolf’.
Lucien: Let’s hope not.