“I think I see what’s going on here,” Josh said. “From our perspective, you are still at the moment of time when you left our world.”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” said Amelia, “I guess from your point of view the situation would look more or less like that.”<\/p>\n
“Then why is it you can interact with us, all of these years later?”<\/p>\n
“That’s a very good question. In a way, I suppose it’s analogous to talking on a telephone. You can use a phone to have a conversation with someone, even a very rich conversation, but that doesn’t mean you are actually in the same room.”<\/p>\n
“So this conversation, you and I sitting on this bed. We’re actually talking to each other on the telephone?” Jenny asked.<\/p>\n
Amelia laughed. “I said it was analogous. But in a way, yes. If you take an extremely broad view of the concept of a telephone.”<\/p>\n
Josh looked troubled. “And if you exited back into our world through the same door you came in? That would be bad, wouldn’t it.”<\/p>\n
“Maybe not for me,” Amelia said, “but it’s not me I’m worried about.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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