Time for a Mission: The Chronomancer Chronicles by KD Mack

Author:KD Mack [Mack, KD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Matias ensured the place was cleared out before he and the rest of the team left, leaving the trio to make their jump. Matias had logged several points and organized them in the order he wanted them to make the jumps. He was always exacting with this sort of thing, which made missions quite clear, but it could be intimidating when you got the whole list of orders.

Bendon looked between the two of them. “I want to get to the bottom of this, too,” she said, once Matias left. “So for right now? I’m going to believe you, Kreg. I’m going to believe that the class act you put on back there wasn’t enough to get past Xavian’s radar and he got wise and left. I’ll believe you didn’t see anything last night. But if more unexplained mess ups start happening? I’m not going to extend that courtesy.”

“Class act?” Kreg said, surprised. “Why, Bendon. I didn’t know you thought so highly of my skills.”

She sighed and rolled her eyes, then quickly tapped into his restrictor band and the three of them headed into the vortex. Steff felt herself relax as they entered the swirling portal. Out there, she wasn’t sure what was the right call to make. But here, in the vortex, you had a clear destination. A clear goal. And it felt as natural to move through to her as a fish through water. She smiled.

Something shifted up ahead. Not their goalpost, something. A figure. Steff cried out and pointed, and as they moved through, it grew larger and larger. It didn’t seem to be running, though it was fuzzy around the edges, shifting in focus. Bendon clutched her weapon at her side. Xavian had taken most of their weapons with him, but they still had the small side-arms Bendon had left back at their campsite just in case.

And then, too soon, before they should have reached it, it was in front of them. No, not it. Her. She stood there, looking at them, confused. Panicked. Her clothing was ragged, a strange jumpsuit with a variety of readouts on the front that were long-dead. Her hair was in disarray. She looked like she was trying to say something, but Steff realized the woman wasn’t looking at them, but something beyond them. Steff turned to try and follow the woman’s line of sight but she couldn’t see anything. She turned back in confusion while Bendon tried to communicate with her. The woman didn’t seem aware of their presence. What was she afraid of? Was whoever they were chasing here in the timeline? Was Xavian chasing this woman? She looked like she had been in some sort of firefight.

Bendon and Kreg were both calling out to her now, their travel stopped short, and finally Kreg reached out and touched her arm gently, but it seemed to send a shock through her. She looked at the three of them, aghast, then let out a cry and was yanked away in front of them.

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