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"True...enough, although I'm sort of reluctant to destroy irreplaceable biodiversity to put in physical buildings when I could instead just install pocket dimensions." 

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"Maybe all pocket dimensions is the way to go," acknowledges Kamuor. "I think they'd probably have the greens bag some of everything and sequence it first?"

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"Back on my home planet we're dealing with some unintended side-effects of damaging the ecology so my instincts there are pretty conservatively calibrated." 

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"Oh no, what happened?"

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"We cleared out a bunch of plants we thought we didn't need and it turned out they were cleaning some chemicals out of the atmosphere and now the chemicals are magnifying the sun's rays and the planet is getting warmer and the polar ice caps are melting and the sea level is rising." 

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"That does sound like a problem. There's not a non-plant-based fix?"

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"Not an efficient one. We're trying to put the plants back but it's logistically complicated." 

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"Well, I hope it works out all right."

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"Me too. Not that I'm likely to find out." 

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"I hope we can figure out a way to contact your planet eventually."

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"That'd be nice. But it's not my highest priority."

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"What is?"

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"Fixing this planet. See--the incident that got me sent here forked me first, so there's also one'a me back home dealing with Earth. She handles that planet, I handle this one, it's all very tidy." 

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"Oh! How do you know, are you in contact with her?"

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"No. I guess it's possible she also got zapped, but the forking happened like half an hour before the sending, it was kind of an extended crisis. But I'm pretty sure that once she saw what happened to me my fork could squish the sender pretty easily; we were on property I owned at the time. I was taken by surprise." 

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"Who forked you?"

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"This guy the zapper-person was working for." 

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"Why? That seems like a weird thing to do to an opponent."

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"I'm not sure he knew exactly what was going on, things were pretty chaotic at that point." 

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"Oh. Well, at least you don't have to worry about how your family and so on is getting by at home."

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"Yeah, I'd be a lot more freaked out if I had to worry about how things were going without me." 

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"I suppose I thought I didn't have a good idea of how to assess how freaked out you might be since you're an alien."

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"And I would have been hiding it anyway, people who are freaking out can be more dangerous and I wouldn't wanna scare you." 

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"I appreciate that."

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"Being conscious of--who has power over who in what ways--has been an important skill in my life." 

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