The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic

Author:Neve Maslakovic [Maslakovic, Neve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2013-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

The grad students returned carrying something my nose registered before my eyes did. Bread. Round, about the size of a dinner plate, and marked into wedges by a design on the top. The sweet, yeasty aroma made my stomach growl with hunger. “Where did you get that?” I asked the pair as Kamal wiped his hands on his shirt (a useless gesture in terms of getting them clean, since his shirt was equally grungy). He proceeded to break the bread into sections and pass them all around.

It was Abigail who answered, mouth full. “I—yum—distracted the bakery shopkeeper while Kamal borrowed the loaf.”

“Borrowed the—Abigail! Kamal!” Helen chastised them, shocked.

“You should have seen her,” said Kamal, who didn’t seem chagrined at all. “She all but fluttered her eyelashes at the baker.” He offered the professor a wedge. “Dr. Presnik, if any of our actions threatened to significantly impact someone’s life or change History, we wouldn’t be able to undertake them. You know that.”

“Still—one does not alter one’s morals according to the difficulty of the circumstances, Miss Tanner and Mr. Ahmad.”

It seemed to me that the opposite was true and that sometimes circumstances did need to dictate our actions. The bread must have been fresh out of the oven, and its oatmeal-white interior was warm and dotted with nuts and raisins. Suddenly realizing how ravenous I was, I attacked the piece. Kamal and the security chief proceeded to dig in as well.

After a moment, Helen relented and took a bite. “I’ve always felt that our researchers should carry along a bag of gold nuggets for emergencies. When we get our hands on a denarius or two—no, I don’t have any ideas yet about how we can do that—we’ll go back and reimburse the baker.”

“Fair enough,” the chief said through a full mouth. For a police officer, he sure didn’t seem too bothered by the idea of consuming stolen goods.

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