"Are you still playing with that thing?"
"I am not playing with it. This is not a toy."
"Looks like a toy to me."
"Shouldn't we be the same age? Why does it feel like your age of maturity stopped at 800 years old?"
"And why does it feel like you haven't stopped aging past 3000?"
"Tch. Just leave if you have nothing informative to share."
"Oh, I do have something to share."
Millions of miles away from the space station, Dee set up a small laboratory; her machinery, just floating still in the expanse of space — and right in the center of it all was a large capsule, and in it, the star compressor, which Dee now officially named as Cosmic Compressor.
After all, the device did not just store the energy of a star, but the energy of all the celestial bodies a universe holds.
Ah, Alice