Lucille completed the plans for her time machine.


    "Hello, Lucille!" said an apparition that appeared out of nothing.


    "Who are you?"


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    "A ''future person,'' if you will. I''ve come to meet the inventor at the moment it was invented."


    "Oh, so it does work?"


    "Umm. I mean, yeah, sort of. As you can see, I can''t use a corporeal body. I''m in a state of quantum flux."


    "But time traveling does work? I can use my machine!"


    "Time travel works! But it''ll be about 300 years before any energy source becomes available. But it does work!"


    Lucille sighed and frowned.