NanoSteps Brainstorming 2 - Stepping Out

[robkelk]

After making sure Eimi wasn't visible from the hall, I opened the door to my room and stepped out - where the person I wanted to talk with was also leaving his room, a flashlight in his hand.

I was just in time.

"May I speak with you for a moment, Mr. Carpenter?"

"I'm somewhat busy at the moment, Mr. Sangnoir. Can this wait until tomorrow?"

I shook my head. "Unfortunately, I need to talk with you before you take your walk. But I suspect you'd be interested in talking with a friend of mine, who would be extremely inconvenienced if the power was to stop for a half-hour and who knows how to travel 250,000,000 miles in less than a day." That caught his interest. "Give me a moment, and the three of us can talk while you're walking to -" Then I remembered who was listening. (It had been a while since I last watched the movie.) "- your appointment this evening."
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012