Adventures of Grace Quinlan and Lord William Hayden Outside of Time (Volume 2) by Freda Paula

Author:Freda, Paula
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, mystery, paranormal romance, fantasy, archaeology, time travel, clean romance, foreign ports, romance and adventure outside of time
Publisher: Paula Freda

CHAPTER FIVE

Inside the dirt cutter’s cockpit, Cyborg S20 patiently explained the workings of the control panel. Lord Hayden and Elizabeth absorbed as much as their mid twentieth century minds were capable of, and hoped that logic and common sense would supply the rest. Orderly to the last, the cyborg wished them well and left the cutter.

Lord Hayden peered through the canopy, past the serrated teeth of the long appendage meant to tunnel through the earth, and watched S20 climb into the airship that had brought them to this desert spot. Within a few seconds the airship lifted, then disappeared into the horizon. No one had come to see them off, despite the fact they might never return. No one must know of this mission, Agnes had warned them. In addition, if they were successful, it was imperative that no one in the past find out either. She had made them swear on their very souls. The secret must live and die with them. The people of the twenty-sixth century and the centuries following until the year 3000 must continue believing that the bomb remained active. Any other information, no matter how trivial it might seem to the two archaeologists, could affect the thinking and actions of individuals. Even one slight change was capable of creating drastic alterations in the time line, comparable to the domino effect. "Your lives as well might be affected, as they are already entangled with ours. If you are successful nothing will change of the present, except that next week the earth and the universe as we know it will still be here."

"And if we fail to stop him?" Elizabeth had asked.

Agnes replied, "Kraton’s bomb is tuned to the sound waves particular to linear time. Upon detonation it will disrupt those sound waves. And much like a bomb exploding causes things to blow up, Time will blow up, as simple as that."

"All of time?" Elizabeth said. "It sounds incredible. How can you blow up time?"

Lord Hayden seconded, "Time is not a tangible; how can you explode an intangible?"

"What is left when a bomb explodes?" Agnes asked.

"Pieces," Hayden replied.

"Precisely... pieces," Agnes said. "You and Miss Quinlan may find yourselves sitting beside Napoleon who may in turn find himself sitting beside Caesar, who in turn may be sitting beside me. Chaos, my friends. Total chaos. The dead will indeed rise from their graves, as time as we understand it, comes to an end.

"On the other hand," she continued, "if you are successful in deterring our madman from planting the bomb, you will be returned to your century, at exactly the same moment and place you were taken. You realize, we almost snatched you inside Psyche’s tomb, but you were both too quick for us."

"But that was a year ago," Elizabeth said.

"A year to you, Miss Quinlan. A few minutes to us, to readjust dials and reset coordinates, and pinpoint your next exact location."

They would know! The thought rose in Elizabeth’s mind, and she asked "What about Psyche, and

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