"Beautiful things like letters home, or terrifying things that a glove that brings a dead person back to life, or pendants that make you able to read people's minds."
He unlocks a cabinet and takes out a round piece of brass with switches down one side.
"This tells you the weather on any day, past or present or future, on the planet you're standing on."
He takes out a narrow locked box. "In here is an instrument that will reveal strong emotional moments of the room where you are. One side does the past and one side does the future.
"And this..." He rummages, then brings out a black piece of ... something shiny. "This, we have no idea. Jack thinks it's an intergalactic garage-door opener. I like to think it's an actual copy of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, only there's no 'don't panic' on it."
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He unlocks a cabinet and takes out a round piece of brass with switches down one side.
"This tells you the weather on any day, past or present or future, on the planet you're standing on."
He takes out a narrow locked box. "In here is an instrument that will reveal strong emotional moments of the room where you are. One side does the past and one side does the future.
"And this..." He rummages, then brings out a black piece of ... something shiny. "This, we have no idea. Jack thinks it's an intergalactic garage-door opener. I like to think it's an actual copy of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, only there's no 'don't panic' on it."