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her eyes on the floor, one hand pulling absently at her short, spiked hair. Finn was quiet, letting her think, knowing from experience that she couldn’t be rushed.
    “Is there anything else?” she asked suddenly, looking up at him with a feverish brightness to her eyes that both frightened him and gave him hope. “Anything at all, whether it was a similar feeling at another time, or something else that might seem unconnected, but that you can’t explain?”
    “Well…,” Finn began, searching his mind. “Yeah. I’ve started feeling it again. I can’t speak for Tesla, but I can’t help but wonder if she’s experiencing something weird, too. Unless I was fuzzier than I thought after I got knocked out, I’m pretty sure that she said her headache from the chloroform had mostly dissipated, but when I winced from a sharp pain from getting hit on the head, she…..”
    “She what??” Bizzy prodded him, obviously excited now.
    “Well, I’m pretty sure that she said ouch. Like, you know—she felt the pain I felt. At the same time.”
    Without a word, Bizzy jumped up and darted past Finn to her laptop, which sat open on her desk. She began furiously typing, then reading, then typing again. Finn stood up and paced the room, glancing at her every few seconds, knowing better than to interrupt her but barely able to keep from shouting “What??” at her back.
    Finally, after an interminable wait during which Finn contemplated the probability that Bizzy was researching what precise mental illness he was manifesting in her room, and whether or not he should make a run for it now, before the authorities arrived with a straightjacket, Bizzy straightened up and turned to him.
    Finn took an involuntary step back from the intensity of her expression. Her thin frame fairly vibrated from the excitement she kept in check.
    “Do you know what it is?” he asked cautiously. “I’m not crazy, right? This means something?”
    “You know I can’t give you a definitive answer.” Despite her obvious excitement, she would not tell him that something was true if she did not know it, and she could not know it without a lot more information. “But I have an idea,” she said, her voice hushed. “Sit down.”
    Finn backed up, his eyes locked on hers, and sat down on the bed when the backs of his legs told him it was right behind him. Bizzy swung the chair around and sat down, facing him, her back straight. Their eyes never wavered.
    “Have you ever heard of quantum entanglement?” she asked.
    “Um, no,” he said. “Why would I?”
    “Well, Einstein and some others came up with a theory to explain how and why two electrons which had once been connected but were later separated by a great distance might experience the same thing at precisely the same time.”
    “What do you mean?” asked Finn, impatient to get to what was actually going on in his life.
    “Bear with me here. They found that if they changed the rotation of one electron, the other electron’s rotation changed, too—at exactly the same moment .” When Finn just looked confused, Bizzy continued. “Given the laws of classical physics, one of these two electrons would experience the change after the other one; even if one experienced what the other experienced, there would be a delay. But there was none. Quantum entanglement suggests that this happens because all things are connected, always. Across time and space.”
    “And?” Finn prodded, his impatience clear.
    “And, I think it’s possible that somehow, traveling in time together has…intensified the connection between you and Tesla—and it’s continued to get stronger. The theory of quantum entanglement says that everyone is connected to everyone else, everywhere and every when , if you follow me, in ways we aren’t aware of. But what if you and Tesla are connected now in a way that you are aware of? You feel the connection, emotionally and physically. Because it’s been—you know,