Time Traveller
Your fingers dart across the various keyboards as you input the necessary details to return you to the present. The machine bleeps and whirrs as you throw the switch and sit back. Your stomach does a variety of somasaults as the machine traverses timezones and avoids the impossibility complex.
As the machine touches down with a thump, you take a deep breath and step outside.
To your relief, the lab looks exactly the same as you left it, with its clinical white desks and bright lights. The overseer looks up in surprise and comes across to shake your hand.
"Congratulations!" He says, "You're the first person to travel through time! But why were you so quick? It's only been a minute or two."
You stare at him in surprise. Only a minute? You've been gone much longer than that. Suddenly, you notice something odd. The window of the lab room is looking out upon the city, but from an impossible height.
"What's happening?" You cry and rush to the window. The city is several hundred feet below you, bustling with vehicles.
The overseer raises an eyebrow. "The lab is a tower, built in 2002. Don't you remember?"
No, you don't. You remember the lab as a rectangular building on the outskirts of the city. Though actually...now he mentions it...
"You remember? You and Michelle approved the design yourselves."
Oh yes. Of course, now you remember. It had taken them years to built this magnificent edifice, and you and another scientist, Michelle, went to meet with the architects to look over the designs. Strange that you should forget that.
"Of course," You say, "Silly of me. It's good to be back. Shall we get a cup of coffee?"
The overseer arches an eyebrow again.
"What the hell is coffee?"
Coffee? What an odd word. You don't know where that came from. You shrug.
"Sorry. Time travel must have put me a little out of sync."
The overseer grins and leaves the room. As you follow him, you look out of the windows at the sprawling city below and smile to yourself.
It's great to be home.
As the machine touches down with a thump, you take a deep breath and step outside.
To your relief, the lab looks exactly the same as you left it, with its clinical white desks and bright lights. The overseer looks up in surprise and comes across to shake your hand.
"Congratulations!" He says, "You're the first person to travel through time! But why were you so quick? It's only been a minute or two."
You stare at him in surprise. Only a minute? You've been gone much longer than that. Suddenly, you notice something odd. The window of the lab room is looking out upon the city, but from an impossible height.
"What's happening?" You cry and rush to the window. The city is several hundred feet below you, bustling with vehicles.
The overseer raises an eyebrow. "The lab is a tower, built in 2002. Don't you remember?"
No, you don't. You remember the lab as a rectangular building on the outskirts of the city. Though actually...now he mentions it...
"You remember? You and Michelle approved the design yourselves."
Oh yes. Of course, now you remember. It had taken them years to built this magnificent edifice, and you and another scientist, Michelle, went to meet with the architects to look over the designs. Strange that you should forget that.
"Of course," You say, "Silly of me. It's good to be back. Shall we get a cup of coffee?"
The overseer arches an eyebrow again.
"What the hell is coffee?"
Coffee? What an odd word. You don't know where that came from. You shrug.
"Sorry. Time travel must have put me a little out of sync."
The overseer grins and leaves the room. As you follow him, you look out of the windows at the sprawling city below and smile to yourself.
It's great to be home.
