That little bit of training McTroy was talking about so I could take first place took no less than five years, but it was worth every moment I spent there. He looked familiar, but I didn’t know where to take it, so, realizing my confusion, he introduced himself:
“I thought you knew me! The second group agreed that life had been inseminated from the outside onto Earth, but argued that this didn’t happen by accident, but was directed by an extraterrestrial intelligence that was in the business of inseminating all the life-breeding planets in the universe. But I didn’t see her, first because the experience was taking place somewhere else entirely, and second because the time tachometer was scrolling its digits on the display far too fast to keep track of anything. Actually, I say “when I met her” wrong, because she was the one who sought me out after hearing from her classmates about my past excursions.