I reached over the front seat to the pizza box, handing back her drink while I pulled the box and my own drink back over. "This is really making me hungry." Heri smiled at all this. "Like our 'exercise' earlier wasn't enough, already." She sipped her cool drink of ice-diluted soft drink whose carbonated fizz had long since fizzed away. I offered her the last piece of pizza, but she shook her head, lost in more advanced thought. So I finished that piece too and shoved the empty box back into the front seat. Her frown was as cute as her smile, and she was frowning now. "Beings who live in that other universe who may be or are controlling our thoughts in this one. If I am right, and our own cultural reactions mirror those, then this could explain some of the weird coincidences and disappea

