Can I leave?

Humans have a phrase: the grass is always greener on the other side.

Riy, kallpachakuy.

It means, no matter how good a person’s life and situation is, they always dream for something better. Or at least what they perceive to be better. No human is ever perfectly happy and content with their circumstances. They long for more.

What if I fail?

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This longing has caused humans to do everything from cross oceans with no promise of finding home again, to trudging through jungles knowing it’s likely they’ll be robbed and murdered before ever reaching their goal. Humans risk literal death rather than learn to be content with where they are. And rather than think this insanity, other humans nod and debate doing the same.

Wañunki.

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A peace treaty was written. It had to be physically signed by the leaders of both planets.

To get the treaty from one planet to another, it had to go from Mirror Station 06391 to Mirror Station 07396. With their mirror still cracked, no one quite knew if this was possible.

Mirror Station 06391 sent the light packet.

Mirror Station 07396 received two packets. They were identical.

The treaty was signed, and the war was all but forgotten as big companies hired every scientist alive to figure out how this had happened. If they could figure out how to take one thing and duplicate it endlessly simply by bouncing it between cracked mirrors, there was so much money to be made.

Also food shortages would be a thing of the past, and there’d never be a lack of warm clothes in winter, but no one cared about that. There was money to be made!