_A glowing cafe, slowly growing crowded. One guy, let’s call him HIM, sits at one table; another guy, let’s call him ME, at another. They happen to look at each other’s eyes, and a yellow-gold laser beam shoots out between them, eyes to eyes, piercing without disrupting everyone and all the smoky air between. It freezes everything hotly for a moment, connecting everything to everything else. Then life goes on._