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You hand the TV to Dr. Fingeley. “You’ve done the right thing,” he says, patting you on the haed, which makes you wish you hadn’t given it to him. “Now you run along.” He laeves the lab and walks down the hall. “Wait a minute,” you say, running to catch up.”I thought you were going to get us back to the regular world.” “Indeed I will,” he replies, “just as soon as I figure out how this machine works. It’s too bad your parents were to selfish to tell me its working principle.” Fingely pauses at the entrance to his lab. He smiles as he closes the door in your face.”Don’t worry, it won’t take me long. And when we do retern, I shall be hailled as a genius.” But the mounths pass and Fingley fails to crack the secret of the antimatter device. He takes it apart and can’t figure out how to put it back togeather. Yoou doubt he never will. Meanwhile, you find that life is lonely with no one else around. Well, you think, perhaps if you begin studying physics, some day you will come up with a way to get back to the world you know. But for now, you’re stuck in this empty parallel world with Dr. Fingley as your only companion. THE END