“So, is this legal, Louis?”
“I mean, you can only really govern that which you know about. It’s Earth-legal, but who knows if there’s some cosmic force watching over transgressions like this?”
“You have a talent for that.”
“Eloquence?”
“Reassuring and then escalating the terror.”
“Well, I just sort of think we’re beyond legality at this point.”
“Fair. So how does it work?”
“You won’t like it.”
“Tell me anyway.”
“Once the two objects are entangled, I just tell the computer to disregard the broken one.”
“Oh.”
“Yes.”
“I’ll get Hume on the phone.”
