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Elizabeth Tasker

I was in limbo land.

Having scanned my boarding pass to accompany the model to the plane door, I was then left to roam the empty hallway until boarding could begin. The wheelchair users went ahead, but I was allowed to board with the parents of young children.

I found my “child” neatly strapped in. I noticed it had bagged the window seat.

A lady came and sat down on my right, giving me and my model an askance look.

Body parts. Full of human organs. She was sure of it. I could tell.

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Elizabeth Tasker replied to Elizabeth

I took the beef curry. The model didn’t get anything, since it had failed to keep its human ticket.

We’d made it to Singapore.

Elizabeth Tasker replied to Elizabeth

A bag scan was needed at the Singapore gate.

My laptop slid through.

The model slid through.

And then came the case containing the asteroid sample.

“What is this?”

I took a deep breath.

“It is… an asteroid sample.”

I waited. My hand inched towards my laptop with hours of presentations on Hayabusa2.

“Huh. OK.”

The attendant turned to her colleague.

“It’s an asteroid,” she said in a tone that implied they’d seen 72 others in the last week alone. Just a chip from outer space. Again.

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