Sadde and Isabella in Eclipse
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[Well, once we've figured out if there's a way to establish safe two-way transit you can show me.]

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[Unless the tunnel thing closed—and I don't think it did, since we're talking in real time—I don't see why there wouldn't be.]

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[Do you have particular reason to believe we're talking by tunnel and not just across interstellar space?]

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[FTL communication breaks physics enough that I might scream for a few hours if it exists.]

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[Pet, we're magic.]

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[Yeah but there's, like, degrees of breaking physics, and the speed of light is kinda the last one.]

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[Doesn't your tunnel violate lightspeed all by itself?]

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[That... depends. Wormholes and stuff are theoretically possible, but I don't understand enough general relativity to know why.]

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[So why can't my psi-phone be doing its own tunneling?]

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[Well... I suppose if someone did in fact make this tunnel and there was any nonzero amount of targeting then I ought to be freaking out about it much more than I did over the past year.]

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[What do you mean?]

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[Like, I'd been sorta assuming this was a natural phenomenon, but if someone went ahead and actually made the tunnel and targeted it to, like, some habitable planet with life on it and it worked, then I need to freak out for a bit about it.]

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['Cause of what I just said, about this breaking physics even harder than I was already used to. I'm very uncomfortable about living in a universe that's perfectly well-behaved according to simple mathematical laws that apply everywhere except when a creature of a certain specific species thinks really hard at it!]

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[I feel like it is a little late for you to be having this crisis.]

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[Yeah that's my point, I had this nice little exception around it in my brain, like surely we're not really breaking any laws, maybe we're drawing energy from somewhere else and it's not literally being created out of nowhere, or maybe the laws are a little bit different than we all thought, but this means everything's wrong! Augh!] 

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[Is there some reason those explanations can't apply to superluminality?]

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[Yes! Subluminality is a really really big part of physics! It breaks causality if you go faster than light! Kinda!]

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[Pet, I'm a precog. I break causality a dozen times before my lunch break.]

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[Not necessarily! Precognition could just be very good simulation!]

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[On the calories in an omelette I'm simulating thirty seconds of a world?]

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[The energy could come from somewhere else, I don't know, my house of cards is collapsing!]

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[You're adorable, lovely.]

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[Aaaugh!]

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[Awwwww. Did the physics not be uniform in the presence of magic at you.]

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