Adam Amari hovers at the center of a sphere. Facing him are four Concordance Coordinators. Behind him are the Rainbow Warriors.
What transpires inside the sphere will be broadcast to other Concordance Schema. Nobody here is happy about being here, but for vastly different reasons.
“You guys have been dumping negative emotions on Earth for like thousands of years,” he announces, boldly.
None of the Coordinators speak. Uncertain of whether they’re even going to acknowledge his words, he commands Tau to relay the evidence from LASI-9292.
The conversation replays itself. And still they say nothing.
“Are you all okay with this?” Adam demands finally.
“It is our policy,” says one Coordinator, as though this pronouncement settled the matter.
“Well it’s a terrible policy!” Adam shouts. “You’re hurting people by dumping this stuff on our planet!”
“The alternative is to allow it to pollute the universe,” another Coordinator says. “The GS-343 policy effectively contains this emotional energy.”
“Well it’s not contained on Earth,” Adam retorts. “It’s full, and it’s been leaking, for who knows how long.”
A third Coordinator now speaks. “Then, Agent Amari, is it not your duty as a Concordance Agent to neutralize the leak?”
“How would I do that?”
“Requisition a receptacle. Arrange transport to another storage facility. Contact–”
Adam cuts in. “Move the problem to someone else’s planet, in other words.”
The Coordinators resume their silence.
“Why is that the only alternative? Haven’t you ever found a better way to deal with this stuff?”
The fourth and final Coordinator now speaks. “This solution was deemed best.”
Adam scowls. “And you guys always know what’s best.”
The Coordinator nods, without any hint of irony. “That is correct, Agent Amari. That is why we are the Coordinators of the Concordance.”
“And you’ve been keeping an eye on Earth, and you know that everything is fine there? No problems?”
“If there were problems, we would direct our agents to action,” the Coordinator says calmly.
Adam nods. “Great. What happened to Solaris-Gamma-1 and Solaris-Gamma-3?”
The Coordinators look at each other. Finally the first one speaks. “Explain the relevance of this matter to your inquiry about GS-343.”
“Two Concordance shards went to Earth. They’re unaccounted for, as far as I’ve been able to determine,” Adam says. “If everything is fine with a huge deal like this emotion dumping, everything is fine with a couple missing Concordance shards. Because you’re on top of all this. Right?”
The Coordinators confer silently. The second one now speaks. “Agent Amari, do you wish to act as our agent of enquiry on Earth, to verify conditions to your own satisfaction, and to correct any problems you detect?”
Adam knows what this is about. They want to make him personally responsible for the two missing shards. But maybe that’s a fair trade for him getting his message out. And there’s something else he can do with this turn of events.
“Yeah. But there’s just one thing I need.”
“What is that?”
He tells them.