Time Pirate by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall [Vall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-26T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“What the devil is that?” Emily hissed at me as I scrambled for the phone in my pocket.

I noticed I was getting a lot of angry and confused glares from the crowd around me. Emily was trying to smile apologetically while she gently pushed me away from the crowd, but this was an unusual situation for everyone involved.

“Sorry,” I said loudly as I tried to mask the sound of the ringing and distract the crowd with a wave of my hand. “It’s this new traveling grandfather clock I’m trying out, still have some kinks to work out.”

The crowd’s gaze continued to follow me as Emily and I jogged away from the gathering. Thankfully, I managed to silence my phone from inside of my pocket, so I didn’t have to pull the modern device out for everyone to see.

“Come on, we need to get away from here,” Emily said as she pulled me toward her street.

I let the pretty blonde woman lead me right down the street and back to her house, which luckily we weren’t far from.

“Sorry about that.” I grimaced as Emily gestured for me to sit at one of the chairs in the living room. Now that we were away from curious onlookers, I pulled my phone out of my pocket and saw I had one notification for a missed call.

“What is that?” Emily asked curiously as she drew the curtains shut and then joined my side.

“A phone,” I said.

“What is a phone?” Emily frowned as she studied the black device in my hands.

“Well, originally, it was just a way for people who weren’t near each other to communicate,” I explained as I swiped the screen and unlocked the phone.

Emily gasped at my actions as if she was witnessing magic right before her eyes, which I suppose she was, in a way.

“Now, it does a hell of a lot more than just make phone calls,” I continued. “Now, a phone is a whole computer, you can go on the internet and look up anything you want, play games like Candy Crush, or make fantasy football leagues if that’s your thing…”

I noticed the pretty blonde woman was looking at me like I’d grown an extra head, and I chuckled as I realized none of these words made sense to her.

“Sorry,” I chuckled again, and then I held the phone so Emily could see the screen as I slowly started to click through the various apps I had.

“Amazing,” Emily breathed as I expanded the weather app, and there was a moving picture of a sun in the corner of it. “This is what the future has?”

“This and a lot more.” I smiled.

“That’s incredible,” Emily said as her wide eyes took in all the bright, modern displays on my smartphone.

“Everyone has one of these in the future,” I said with a shrug. Then I frowned at the screen, since the notification bar informed me I had no service and no data.

Obviously that was the case, it wasn’t like there was a cell tower nearby.

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