24 Thorne “There is no torture quite like being trapped in a routine mission on a parallel universe of no import.” – Beauregard the Great, Instructions for Visiting Parallel Worlds Days pass. Meimi keeps focusing on our big project. Not a lot of actual work gets done, though. I’ve been on planets with nothing but rocks and fire where more stuff got created in less time. Leaning against the lab wall, I make a quick mental inventory. Zoe is still developing her hallucinogen and not the smoke screen, which she calls the puff bomb. Chloe keeps complaining that she needs to know how to fit an omnivoid generator into the Crawler without being limited by other people’s ideas. Too bad Meimi is the one actually designing the omnivoid device. Today, things got pretty heated. Now the twins are

