136 AT THE CURB, Jay hurries back to the LTD with the newspapers, Elle is waiting, leaning against the hood. Tailored black suit, Black shoes. Short-corpped hair. The look never looked better. ELLE Zed called. The High Consulate of Regent-9 emissary wants floor seats to the Knicks-Bulls game. JAY I'll talk to Dennis Rodman, its his damn planet. ELLE Let's roll. 137 EXT. NEW YORK CITY BLOCK--DAY The LTD is just one of many cars in a jam-packed Manhattan city block. 138 FROM UP IN THE CLOUDS Manhattan itself is just part of a much larger urban and suburban sprawl. 139 FROM THE STRATOSPHERE The east coast of the United States is just part of a much larger land mass. 140 FROM THE EOSPHERE North American is just a small portion of the planet Earth. 141 FROM SPACE Earth is just a tiny ball in our solar system 142 FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE MILKY WAY Our solar system is just a few blips of light in a vast star field. 143 FROM OUTSIDE OUR GALAXY The Milky Way is just a creamy spiral amid innumerable other creamy spirals. 144 FROM THE OUTER REACHES OF THE UNIVERSE There seems to be an edge to what we see, a curved border that seems to close in on things around the perimeters, until everything that exists seems to be contained in one tiny ball-- --which is actually a marble resting on a strange-looking patch of red dirt. An ALIEN HAND reaches down and flicks the marble, sending it skittering and bouncing across the dirt, where it CLICKS into a dozen other big blue balls just like it.

But high above the chasm     and twinkling ethereally at the Pole Star sits   Chasmodai, the Charioteer on her chariot-throne, redeemer and ruler over all.   And this is the first password

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