The Master of Time by David Wingrove

Author:David Wingrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

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The tiny lecture theatre is packed as I take the rostrum, the meeting attended by more than sixty of our number; once enemies, now friends and allies.

Katerina is there, of course, seated in the front row with the other women, but every face I see is one I’d trust with my life.

I give a little speech, telling them what it is I have to do. How I cannot be Meister any longer and feel the way I feel. How logic can only take us so far, and …

And then that huge bear of a man, Svetov, stands, interrupting me, telling me not to apologise for what I’m feeling and that if the fate of our sons and daughters is not a good enough reason for taking action, then what is? And suddenly everyone is on their feet, cheering and yelling encouragement.

And there and then a great scheme is devised, to scour space and time, however long that takes. For, as Svetov rightly argues, if anyone can do it, we can.

The fact is that Reichenau could have hidden the girls anywhere and at any time, and from the hints he gave to Katerina, they are probably being held separately, and even if we find one, that won’t necessarily lead to the others.

What makes it difficult is that Reichenau is dead. ‘Or was,’ I say, realising that once again I have overlooked the most basic of Time’s properties. ‘But he wasn’t always dead, and if I can find him again …’

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