The Garden by Craig W Turner

Author:Craig W Turner [Turner, Craig W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781986802932
Published: 2018-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 35

Normally, Landon wasn’t squeamish about having a needle in his arm, but this time his stomach was turning.

It could’ve been the size of the needle, which was significantly bigger than any he’d ever endured for a blood test or shot. Or it could’ve been the location of the prick, which was in his wrist, just below his thumb.

But most likely it was the purpose of the needle being inserted into his arm, as it had been explained to him. Landon had learned, from his brief introduction while sitting in the secure medical offices dedicated specifically to caring for SATP’s actual time travelers, that one of SATP’s secrets was the innovation that took place in the complex that never saw the outside world. As time travel itself was dangerous enough that it had to be completely contained within the walls of SATP, he hadn’t been surprised to hear that there were literally hundreds of potentially world-changing pieces of technology that the U.S. Patent Office (and the public) knew nothing about. And while that wasn’t surprising, it didn’t change how uncomfortable he was that one of those technologies was being implanted into his arm.

“Explain to me again,” he asked “Dr. Stone,” a pretty but serious young woman whom Landon had learned was the chief physician for whatever department he was currently visiting, “how if there’s no satellites in the past is this technology relevant?” He’d been given directions to the medical office by Keegan as he left the last rendezvous in Reilly’s conference room and had come right here, where he was now squirming in a padded, leather chair as the doctor readied the needle. Stone had been awakened to make sure Landon and Davies could be seen immediately.

“There will be a satellite there, because you are the satellite,” she said as she stabbed the needle into an electronic device about the size of standard red brick and began entering data into it on a digital keypad. “This device that I’m implanting in your arm has the same communications capabilities as any of the satellites orbiting the Earth. Though, of course, it’s designed to communicate with the time portal, and not do all of the other things that satellites do.”

“Is there something I need to do to call the time portal?”

She shook her head, while still focused on the device in her hand. “No. That aspect of the technology will be all programmed for you. It will work in unison with your cloak. But, since it’s possible that you’ll come upon situations that could be helped by access to modern technology, the device acts as a computer for you, tapping into the satellite that you’re carrying around with you for information.”

“What kind of information?”

She turned to him now, pulling the fully-programmed needle from the device. “Well, you won’t have access to the internet, obviously, because the web is housed in the future. But… GPS, simple and complex computations, local time for your destination… Weather – barometric pressure. Your own vitals. Any of the coordinates related to your mission as back-up.

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