Antikythera Incident- Alexandria 2031 by Elisabeth Martin

Author:Elisabeth Martin [Martin, Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jopoto Publishing
Published: 2020-02-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I’ll leave out the steps I had to take getting into the most impenetrable building on the face of the planet. I was, after all, a Master Thief. That meant, like a magician, I kept some secrets close to my heart.

Getting into the Onyx Bureau was a lot harder than I expected. It was exceptionally more difficult tracking down the technology Umberto wanted for her buyer. In the end, what was important was the fact that it took most of the rainy season to plan the heist. It took most of the spring to infiltrate the Bureau. It took half of the draught season to get my hands on the technological breakthrough finally.

When it finally happened, I had two ways out of the secured storage room. First, I could walk out the door with the apparatus. It was the size of an insulated briefcase. The shape of a high-end computer tower, it was just as heavy. Before I decided to walk out of the building with the electronic contraption, I had to find out what happened if I handed it over to Umberto.

That’s when things got tricky. It had to do with timing, geography, and good old-fashion luck. The last part, I felt, for most of my life, that’s precisely how I managed to stay alive and ahead of the rest.

When I leaped from the vault, I had the new gadget and already manipulated my mechanism to sidestep a few years into the future. I needed to know if what I did in the present had any repercussions in the future.

It was one of those moments my friend LaVoir had warned me. The things I learned to pay attention to and certainly tried to avoid. That’s why I needed to know if this contraption was anything like I used to springboard or catapult through time. If what they had in the deep and secret vaults at Onyx was a prototype to the device I used, then it took someone with experience to make an assessment.

There’s a thing about time travel that’s not in any books. The way it feels doesn’t seem to quite make it out into the annals of literature. Nowhere in all my research did I find any information about the sensation associated with leapfrogging through the years. For me, generally, it feels like I’m strapped to a ball of lava and launched through the air with a trebuchet. That includes the thrust going up and then falling without a parachute at terminal velocity.

One moment, I’m standing inside the vault at Onyx. The next, I’m burning, thrusting, falling, and standing in my target destination and location on the other side of a few years.

I learned through trial and error that traveling in time also means traveling geographically. The earth rotates. When I moved through time, it’s not guaranteed I’ll arrive in the exact same location I left from. With my mechanism, I changed the dials, fine-tuned the gear system to pinpoint places in time I felt were relatively safe upon arrival.

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