PLATE 44: Teleporter failure. The transmutation of matter to transmittable energy and its subsequent rematerialization led eventually to transportation and matter-resequencing, but this ‘carbon copying’ was not without its unfortunates.
It was a very rare subject that remained ‘living’ after displacement: more likely they became a gooey mix of what was, or a deformed cretin with one last breath on its lips. But ‘the puddle’, or Dahlia (born Delilah, but she never felt quite herself again after her make-over), lived quite a few years with us, pushed about on a dining cart for the visitors to see. As I recall, when lifting her for cleaning she felt more like a warm jellyfish with the malleability of a well used towel.
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