Section 3
Recap: Dani, an allegedly average twenty-something from the year 2010, is traveling through time to "correct the historical record" for 13 Earths found in parallel universes. These worlds had been altered to fit the description of settings found in fictional novels. The process can be reversed by taking a biological DNA sample from all the writers who penned these novels. Dani is being helped by Aurora, a code breaker from the year 1947.
Another Dani was created by an anomaly and that Dani has been renamed by her captor. To further humiliate Dani, a woman who goes by the name Beth has insisted that Dani submit to her, take on the appearance of a man, and respond to the name "Daniel" instead. Beth had been depriving "Daniel" of food and water for a day and a half, but has stopped, because Beth is convinced her fellow time traveler has become less like a companion, and more like a servant.
Due to the fact that Dani and "Daniel" both co-exist, it has taken a physical toll on each of them, as if the existence of the other has resulted in them being weakened over time. Additionally, when "Daniel" had no access to food, Dani's health was further compromised. Although they are in an ever more weakened state in a physical sense, both have discovered that they can send increasingly unambiguous mental messages to each other. Now "Daniel" is teaching Beth about time travel, while Dani and Aurora have gone to New York City in 1971.
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Year: 1971 - Timeline A
Place: At the door of a room in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
Dialogue: Aurora and Ursula K. Le Guin
Time: These events are occurring after Dani and Aurora time jumped from 2007 to 1971
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Aurora: "I am Aurora living now in the U.S. More importantly, we must speak."
Ursula K. Le Guin: "So, unless this building is burning down and you're going to-"
Aurora: "It is not. This is about your novel 'The Lathe of Heaven,' a book which I recently read."
Ursula: "Are you from the publishing house? I guess that you know my agent or lawyer-"
Aurora: "I recognize, Mrs. Le Guin, from all the tell-tale signs that you are physically spent."
Ursula: "You're right. Don't make me call the fuzz, as the kids say. Sorry, that's a put-on."
Aurora: "I am the one who is sorry. To tell the truth, I still have to impose. See, we need to talk."
Ursula: "I am not mentally alert because my flight just got in to New York. Come back."
Aurora: "Listen, I hate to be persistent Mrs. Le Guin, yet I need to talk to you before tomorrow."
Ursula: "Okay, I'll bite. Give me one very good reason that it has to be before tomorrow."
Aurora: "Ma'am, tomorrow will be the day you give your manuscript to the publishing house."
Ursula: "I'm not sure of the relevance of that fact, though. Goodbye, my lovely woman."
Aurora: "Wait! Once you pass it off, you are condemning an Earth in a parallel universe to a-"
Ursula: "Now that sounds intriguing! Okay, good. Return here in six hours. We'll talk."
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