What does the transporter actually do? Two crew members on the USS Kessler know the answer, and it has broken them in opposite directions.

Aldric hasn’t used the transporter in three years. He walks to his shifts. He takes shuttles when everyone else beams. He knows what he knows, and he cannot unknow it.

Calder uses the transporter constantly. He has used it on himself sixteen times since the day he understood. He has been running experiments on the crew. Fifty-five people in the botanical garden. Twenty-three others. Each one a test of a hypothesis about identity, continuity, and what remains when the pattern is disassembled and rebuilt.

The novella follows the collision between two people who have seen the same truth and drawn opposite conclusions. One chose paralysis. The other chose action. Neither chose well.

Part of the What Is It Like series.

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