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it. A thing did not frighten itself. An arm did not panic at discovering it
was attached to a body.
I surged back. I matched pressure for pressure. I held.
But my mind was still far removed from my body, back on the raft It felt as
if, at the same time, I was floating motionless, and flying at great speed
through infinity. My vantage point was somewhere between the island universes,
out in intergalactic space. In a sense, it was as if I stood on the peak of a
high mountain, from which I could see the misty limits of all time and space.
Almost, h seemed, I could see to the end of the universe; and for the first
time, the total action of the time storm activity became a single pattern in
my mind.
"So, Marc," said a voice-or a thought. It was both and neither, here where
there were no bodies and no near stars-'*you survived."
It was Dragger speaking. I looked for her, instinctively, and did not see her.
But I knew she was there.
"Yes," I said. I was about to tell her that I had never intended anything
else, but a deeper honesty moved me at the last second. "I had to."
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"Evidently. Do you understand the temporal engineering process, now?"
"I think so," I said; and as I said it, the knowledge that had been pumped
into me began to blend with what I was now experiencing, and the whole effort
they were making unrolled into order and relationship, like a blueprint hi my
mind.
"This isn't the way I imagined it," I said. "You're actually trying to stop
the time storm, by physical efforts, to reverse its physical effect on the
universe."
"In a sense."
"In a sense? All right, say hi a sense. But it's still physical reversal. To
put it crudely, in the sort off terms you're most familiar with, the normal
decay of entropy began to stop and reverse itself when the universe stopped
expanding. Then, when the farther stars and the outer galaxies started falling
back here and there, they set up areas where entropy was increasing rather
than decaying. Isn't that right, Dragger? So it had to be these stresses,
these conflicts between the two states of entropy in specific areas, that
spawned the nova implosions and triggered the time faults, so that on one side
of a sharp line, time was moving one way, and on the other, a different way.
So that's what made the time storm! But I assumed you'd be attacking the storm
directly to cure it"
"We're after the root cause."
"Are you, Dragger? But this way-this is using sheer muscle to mend things."
"Do you know of a better way?"
"But-using energy to reverse the falling back of these physical bodies, to
force them to move apart again? There ought to be some way that wouldn't
require tapping another universe. Isn't that what you're doing-and tapping a
tachyon universe at that? You're working with forces that can tear this
universe apart."
"I asked you," repeated Dragger, "do you know a better way?"
"No," I said. "But I've got to see this for myself. I cant believe you can
control something that powerful."
"Look, then," said Dragger. "S Doradus is only a thought away from us here."
It was true. Merely by thinking of it, we were there, with no time spent in
the movement. Bodiless, with Dragger bodiless beside me, I hung in space and
looked at the great spherical darkness that was the massive engine enclosing
the young blue-white giant star called S Doradus. It was an engine that
trapped all the radiation from that vast sun, to use it as a focus point, a
lens in the fabric of our universe, through which then flowed the necessary
jet of energy from the tachyon universe that was being tapped for power-to
push not only stars, but galaxies around.
A coldness took my mind. Through that lens, we were touching another place
where every physical law, and time itself, was reversed from ours. As long as
the lens aperture was controlled, as long as it remained small and unvarying,
the reaction between the two universes was under command. But if the lens
should tear and open further, under the forces it channelled, the energy Sow
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