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[Karlotta]

“Did you... get my pad from captain Javelin?” He ruffled his eyebrows and began to knead his lower lip with thumb and index finger, as he does when faced with especially tough riddles. “And how did you get here so fast, seconds after you docked?”

Elsa angrily picked up the pad and gave Anton a not very gentle pat on the forehead with it. "There's more than one of these in the universe, Dr Smartypants. I prepared the list on my way here from Baffin!”

"That's indeed a matter of perspective, since superluminal motion implies that observers -including themselves- may very well receive photons refracted from the traveler before and after the jump, making it appear as if there are two of the same. Did you take this pad along in any faster than light jumps recently?"

Elsa threw up her hands and raised her eyes to the ceiling "Oh gods! Spare me more of this nonsense!" Glaring back at Anton, she commanded "And you, don't accept to supply those Zoners below these prices. If you do you'll have to ship them yourself."

Long after Elsa had marched out of his lab, Anton was still staring at the data pad which was once again on the table, kneading his lower lip. After what seemed like an eternity to anyone but Anton, he said to himself:

“Yes. It's more nonsense.”

Patting his knees in a motion that signified he gave up on a line of thought, he read Elsa's price list and turned on the com.

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