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March 10
So apparently I have some ability that Reynolds knew about, and that makes me the go-to girl for time travelers. To say that this pisses me off is to be rather more polite about it than I’m willing to express at the moment. I curse in every language I know with every step, [...]
March 9
“Okay,” he says. “Look, it’s gonna take me a little bit of time to get the sample invalidated. I think I can go back and still get everything taken care of before I lose it completely. You have something else you need to do in the meantime, though.”
“What?” I ask. I’m [...]
March 8
It fits. It fits perfectly, except… “Reynolds. This is important. Katie’s your great-grandmother on what side?”
“My mom’s mom’s side,” he says. “What are you getting at?”
“And Katie, did she ever tell you about Ray?” I ask. “In the future. When she was your great-grandma, that is.”
“She died when [...]
March 7
“The red center, for lack of any better phrasing, is a wound in time,” Reynolds says. “If anything, that’s about the best gauge of how much time I have left. Care to throw out a guess?”
I do a little bit of math in my head. It’s been about sixteen hours since we [...]
March 6
The Steamer is bigger now, as if it weren’t big enough before; it flows out from the part in his coat, spilling out into the world. If I didn’t know it was invisible to everyone else, I’d expect it to cause some panic. Even knowing this, I lean back in my chair. [...]
March 5
“Fine,” I say. “What do you want me to do? I’ve never even seen a Steamer before you came along.”
“You…” Reynold’s eyes widen, almost to the point that they’re about to jump out of his skull. “I’m… what year is this?”
“Two thousand,” I say. “Turn of the millennium. [...]
March 4
“I was only back a few months, relative to this point,” he says. “I was just going to have a look at how my great grandparents got together, and see if I could use that as a little bit of inspiration. See, I’m a writer, and in my time dramatic genealogy is a [...]