The Thunder Mountain Starter Bundle by Dean Wesley Smith

Author:Dean Wesley Smith [Smith, Dean Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WMG Publishing Incorporated

Eighteen

July 19, 2015

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RYAN HAD NO PLAN of letting go of April’s hand any time soon. Something totally strange had just happened that actually had Duster upset and Bonnie swearing lightly under her breath.

Finally, Steven turned and said to Duster. “I’ll explain it all after Janice and I have a shower to get the trail dust off.”

“How long were you back there?” April asked.

“Early summer of 1885 to early summer of 1903,” Janice said. “So only eight years. We cut it short to help Dawn.”

Again Dawn just smiled and hugged her.

“Sorry,” Dawn said. “I’ve been wanting to do that for a year now.”

Ryan was so confused, he just shook his head. He had no idea, none, what had just happened.

“We’ll explain it all after showers,” Steven said. “But you two really should take a little jump to see Silver City in its prime.”

Duster stopped his pacing and stared at Steven and Janice. “Full explanation on what you did? And how you did it?”

“Promise,” Steven said.

“Go,” Duster said.

Steven and Janice and Dawn all headed out of the room together, smiling and laughing.

Then Duster turned to Ryan and April. “Even if you never decide to go to another alternate reality again, let me show you what one is like.”

“Safe?” April asked.

“It is,” Duster said and Bonnie nodded.

“The principles of the conservation of energy and matter and time are what caused this room in the first place,” Bonnie said. “No matter what happens to you in another timeline, you end up back as you left in this timeline, two minutes and fifteen seconds later.”

“It’s physics,” Duster said. “Can’t be any other way. We can explain it all in a lot more depth later if you want.”

Ryan wanted to ask why the odd time, but decided he could do that later as well.

Duster put on gloves and walked over to the wall. He unhooked from the crystal there, seeming to make a note of where it was at, then moved about ten paces away with the long cord and hooked it up to a crystal there.

Then he came back to the machine and set it for May 1887.

“Why 1887?” Ryan asked.

“We did all this construction and protections on this place in 1881,” Duster said. “We go back to 1887 because it’s a good time and this mine has been closed down for years at that point and forgotten by the local residents of the area.”

Ryan flat didn’t understand. Some of the thousand questions he could ask later.

“If you are touching the machine, you will remember the trip. And you have to touch it to have the machine send you.”

Duster put one hand on the machine indicated that Ryan and April should touch the machine in the open area beside his.

April hesitated.

“You’ll understand a lot more about what we are talking about if you spend the next two minutes doing this,” Bonnie said.

“I trust them,” Ryan said, looking at April. “And I would rather have you beside me, holding my hand on this.”

He looked into her worried eyes and finally saw her nod.

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