Biding Time- the Chestnut Covin by E. W. Barnes

Author:E. W. Barnes [Barnes, E. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733149211
Publisher: Now & Later Publishing
Published: 2019-06-12T22:00:00+00:00

When they had finished their iced tea, Rose invited them upstairs to a wood-paneled study dominated by a large desk in the room's center. Sharon felt her skin tingling as she entered the room and the reason soon became obvious. Rose opened the main drawer of the desk and tapped a hidden keypad. The top of the desk transformed into the control panel of a temporal amplifier.

“Another hologram,” Sharon murmured nodding.

“I was examining the timeline to see if my marriage to Kevin - your grandfather - would have any impact that might resonate into the future. As a precaution, I traveled to the future, meeting with myself - your grandmother - to make sure our marriage did not impact history.”

“How can you do that?” Sharon asked, trying to wrap her head around conferring with one’s future self the validity of something one’s future self had already experienced. “Isn’t that like a… uh… circular logic thing?”

“The temporal amplifier protects against paradox,” Rose answered as she scanned the screen on the control panel. She lowered herself into a leather desk chair, not taking her eyes off the screen.

“While I was visiting with… myself, she told me about the errors in the timeline she had been monitoring. Rather than break her agreement with the TPC by contacting it, she asked me to investigate it. She also told me she would leave a message for you, Sharon, as a backup plan. I assume that is why you are here, yes?”

She looked up from her screen as Sharon and Caelen nodded. Rose continued.

“Tonight’s gala event is a fundraiser for food and medicine for the people of Cuba. Earlier this year due to growing international hostilities, President Kennedy cut off all trade with the island except for basic needs, and this group is looking to ease the suffering of Cuban citizens. The gala is being hosted by a group called Humanitarian America.”

“When we researched Humanitarian America, we couldn’t find any reference to it online,” Sharon volunteered.

Rose looked surprised.

“Do you think it’s possible the records might have been lost or not uploaded to the internet?”

“Yes, I suppose so,” Sharon answered. “That would suggest that the group did not make enough of an impact to merit an internet footprint in my time.”

“A reasonable assessment. In two months, the Bay of Pigs crisis will take place. It is possible that confrontation limited the group’s ability to achieve its mission in Cuba. It may have disbanded or refocused its mission. Let’s be sure. Richard, give me a full history of the charity Humanitarian America, including chrono-historical data.”

“I am sorry Miss Rose, there is no information available other than the contemporaneous data you are accessing now.” It was Richard’s voice, as if the hologram was standing in the room with them and he had not re-materialized.

“I don’t understand,” Caelen said as Rose’s eyebrows lifted high on her forehead.

“What is it? What does it mean?” Sharon asked. It was Caelen who answered as Rose typed into the keyboard. From outside came the sound of heavy rain.

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