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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