And you want to know whether we come from Mercury, Venus, or Mars." He was speaking in his own language, using different names for things, but this was the way the thoughts came to her.
She focused on this confusing alignment. In this fractal universe, it seemed that Earth did not revolve around the sun, but around Jupiter, and so did the other small planets. Each planet was a Mandelbrot bug, and Jupiter was a big bug. The webwork of lines connected the four smaller bugs to the big one; apparently gravity didn"t do the job here. Okay, if that was the way it was, that was the way it was. In some realities science worked, and in others pseudoscience like faster-than-light travel worked.
Where Darius came from, a kind of sympathetic magic worked, buttressed by emotional telepathy. Here on O
