Laura: The bullet may not seem like much, but it's a simple machine...Lead bullet, brass casing, gunpowder. If they can invert that, I see no reason they couldn't invert pretty much anything. Even a nuclear weapon can only affect our future...An inverted weapon might be able to affect our past as well. [Opens a drawer of random items that have been inverted] Now that we know what to look for, we're finding more and more inverted material. Remnants of complex objects.
The Protagonist: [Holds hand over one of the items that flies into his palm] What do you think we're seeing?
Laura: The detritus of a coming war.
The Protagonist: [Holds hand over one of the items that flies into his palm] What do you think we're seeing?
Laura: The detritus of a coming war.
Laura : The bullet may not seem like much, but it's a simple machine...Lead bullet, brass casing, gunpowder. If they can invert that, I see no reason they couldn't invert pretty much anything. Even a nuclear weapon can only affect our future...An inverted weapon might be able to affect our past as well. [Opens a drawer of random items that have been inverted] Now that we know what to look for, we're finding more and more inverted material. Remnants of complex objects.
The Protagonist : [Holds hand over one of the items that flies into his palm] What do you think we're seeing?
Laura : The detritus of a coming war.
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