Fir Lodge_The First Novel In The Restarter Series by Sean McMahon

Author:Sean McMahon [McMahon, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-19T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

Repeating Peter’s Paradox

14th Restart – Friday Afternoon, 12:01pm

They landed unsteadily into their next restart, as Hal attempted to maintain his composure, and commenced walking immediately, apparently losing his bearings, as he walked straight into the exterior wall of the sauna room.

‘Ow,’ said Hal, more out of embarrassment than through the pain they both know he couldn’t feel.

‘Why do you always try to walk off as soon as we land here?’ asked Kara, a barely concealed smirk plastered across her face.

‘You’ll think it’s stupid,’ said Hal sheepishly.

‘As stupid as walking into a wall, or falling over every time we land?’ asked Kara.

‘Okay, fair point. It’s just…I’m trying to pull off a time-traveller landing. As we materialise in the past, it’s just so much cooler if we’re walking somewhere with purpose don’t you think? Like, “Damn! There go some competent time-travellers right there!”’

‘Uh-huh. Your argument would hold more water if we weren’t completely invisible to every single human person in this timeline, but I’m sure any wildlife nearby would be blown away,’ replied Kara.

Hal shrugged dismissively. Nothing could ruin his good mood today. In fact, The Restarters had both been instilled with a feeling of positivity, the tragedy they had witnessed pushed slightly further back from the forefront of their thoughts, as the possibilities before them suddenly seemed infinite. They had a purpose now; to learn more about the relationship between Kevin and their murderer. But Hal had a more pressing matter he needed to discuss with her. With everything they had been through, it hadn’t seemed all that important in the grander scheme of things until now.

‘Something weird happened a few restarts ago,’ said Hal.

‘What happened?’ asked Kara, ‘and which restart?’ she added.

‘Well, not to sound like the title of a nineties sitcom, but “The One Where Hal Murdered Robert.”’

‘Ha. Good one,’ said Kara. ‘Nothing about that night wasn’t weird, but go on.’

Hal shrugged off what he was certain was a double-negative, and cut right to it.

‘Peter…he was…’ Hal was struggling to find the words, realising that it would be much easier to show, rather than to tell. ‘Listen, how do you feel about holding-fire with following Kevin? We don’t know how far that will take us, and I really think you need to see this,’ said Hal, acknowledging that he was asking a lot of her, given that it would mean sacrificing another restart.

‘Sure,’ said Kara. ‘If you think it’s important, I trust your judgement.’

If she was being honest, she wasn’t entirely ready to get back on the Restarter horse just yet anyway, and if she could put off witnessing her own murder for a second time, she was all for it.

*

Early that Saturday afternoon, they positioned themselves to ensure they had a good spot in Robert’s room. Kara had tried to get Hal to spill the beans on what to expect, but Hal was adamant this was another one of those “You have to see it for yourself” kind of deals that he had apparently invested shares in, given than this was the second time in as many restarts that he’d taken this approach.

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