Pick the Plot by James Riley

Author:James Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

No!” Kara shouted into the jungle, her hands clenched into fists. “Where did it go? Where did the prison go, Owen?!”

He shook his head. How could it have just vanished like that? Was it invisible? Owen put his hands up and walked forward, but didn’t run into anything. “I don’t get it. What could have happened?”

Kara turned away from him, hands grabbing her head. “It must have been the Countess! I don’t know how, but she must have stopped it from ever being built. But there’s no way she could have done that. It was too big a deal! She would have had to infiltrate the entire Time Security Agency, if not—”

And then Kara went silent, standing motionless for a moment, her mouth hanging open. “No,” she said finally, grabbed the bracelet off of Owen’s hand, and disappeared. Before Owen could even blink, Kara reappeared, looking just as upset as when she’d left.

“It’s gone,” Kara said, falling to the ground, not even looking at him. She dropped her head into her hands and shook it. “The entire agency . . . just gone. It never existed now. It was never even created.”

“What?” Owen said. “But how can that be? The prison was here. Those two agents were here! Someone had to put you here. And you remember the agency, so how could it have never existed?”

“I’m immune to paradox,” Kara whispered almost too softly for him to hear. “Time distortions don’t affect me.”

“But they affect me!” Owen shouted, his voice causing the nearby insects to go quiet. Remembering the large roaring creature outside his cell window back when the prison existed, he took a deep breath and lowered his voice. “This can’t be real, Kara. You can’t just make something not ever have existed!”

“The Countess must have found the agency’s founder,” Kara said, shaking her head. “But there’s no way she could have. I mean, all agents’ origins are kept hidden for just this reason, but the founder’s identity is their greatest secret. The rumor is that the agency locked the founder away, just so no one could ever find him or her, even though a lot of people tried.” She sighed. “I think my future self even looked.”

“So the Countess, what, just killed this founder, and now there’s no longer a TSA? No one is guarding time from time travelers?”

“I knew this would happen,” Kara said, her voice barely loud enough for Owen to hear it. “The moment I’m out of the prison, it all falls apart.”

He leaned down and grabbed her hand. “It’s not safe here. Even if the Countess doesn’t come after us, there are plenty of hungry dinosaurs out there.” Not to mention that they had to return to the present and find a way back to Jupiter City.

Kara nodded, then stood up. She fiddled with the buttons on the bracelet, then turned to him, her eyes red around the edges. “I’m going to get you to safety first,” she said, taking his hand. “After that .

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