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Would you rather be thrown fifty years into the future (and stuck there) or instantly age fifty years (with no way to reverse it)?

Teagen: ‘Duh, I’m not going to be sixty-five in one second, sorry. Fifty years in the future.’

Lawrence: ‘Fifty years in the future. Who knows all the discoveries that have been made!? Then again, I won’t be able to be the one who discovered them… But if I age fifty years, I might not have time to make discoveries…’ Long, thoughtful silence. (Teagen gives a rude prod), ‘My first answer. I have more time that way.’

Elsie: ‘But, what about my family?’ (Teagen rolls his eyes, and Lawrence is still trembling from the last question). ‘I, I couldn’t leave them. My, my parents without a miricle will be dead in fifty years,.. I, I couldn’t abandon them that way, not to save my youth.’

Teagen: ‘It’s also a question of adventure.’ (Elsie gives him a quick hard look, though without malice…is she even capable of malice?)

Waneebi: ‘I would age the fifty years. I will look the same at that age, wait, no. Erase what I said. A new angle has just come to me. I cannot be fifty, unless I have spent fifty years upon this earth. Meaning, that the questions will end up with the same resul,.. Wait, no, no they won’t. The first option leaves me fifty, the second leaves me seventy-one. I’ll go with the first option, yes. I would age the fifty years.’

Omaru: (His brows still lifted, and face blank after Waneebi’s speel…) ‘Uh,’ swallow, ‘Yeah, okay, I’d be fifty, or,’ (clears his throat) ‘Excuse me, sixty-six years old then. I’d still be able to watch my son grow up, though I might not be able to have any more children… Maybe I should ask my wife…’

Teagen: ‘Man, you guys are thinking about this way too much…’

Zicari: (Sighs, and stares with pity on Teagen)

Lucky: ‘The second. The first would kill me.’ (He’s sixty-three)

Zicari: (Lucky looks to him, and the young man snaps from his reverie and thoughts about his project: Teagen.) ‘I would stay here…now. Except for the fact that I’d be useless as an old man at this point. I hold no wisdom. I should jump forward.’

(Humble looks from a few who listened to Zicari. Teagen (though listening) looks away.)

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