"I'm just getting started. And for my next violation, I intend to do something, ... something very big."
The conversation remains extensively reduced. Then the events unfold.
Just like the birth of a shape-shifter requires the sacrifice of a host, the engineer must sacrifice themself.
According to Charmayanne their theory cannot explain why engineers tried to send the deadly virus.
Charmayanne's derives systems and cycles from plants and animals – cicadas, hermit crabs, algae, sting rays, sea squirts, sea sponges, and frogs. S/He teases the visitors with the dire abjection of plastic evolving from the earthy clay.
"The ironic choice of plastic takes aim at the conundrum of future evolution," says the fragrance seller of Bhopal.
S/He doesn't care.
"Now continue. Tell them why I came and only retranslate whatever I say."
Charmayanne translates it back.
They propose a reason why other lifeforms will think like them, in spite of different origins. They think that all problem-solvers, intelligent or not, are subject to the same ultimate constraints – limitations on space, time, and materials.
The fragrance seller of Bhopal attacks the engineer.