Life is pleasant in the reversal chamber. There is much to learn and do games, video screens, computers... but each day you watch the baby grow smaller and smaller. At the age of four months, it can no longer talk; its mouth and vocal chords are no longer sufficiently developed. For a while, it gestures helplessly; then it can only thrash around like a new-born baby.

One day the U-TY robots come and place the baby in a glass-walled box. The box is like an incubator, and you realize that the baby has no longer been born. Now it must have the special protection it would have inside a mother's womb. For nine months the baby grows smaller and smaller, until one day, the robots remove the empty incubator.

What could have happened to it? Is it growing again in another universe? If so, is it the same person or someone else?

Now you are totally alone, aware that each day you are growing smaller and younger. The day is coming when you, too, will not yet have been born. Then you  time in the past you will die once more, and so begin life again.

/ENDING Nº21/