Time Stitchers Headquarters, European Continent
“You have to be joking! Do you know how fricking exhausting it is for me going through the time portal? You’re blooming lucky to be one of the eighty per cent who don’t get affected. And anyway, it’s all your fault and you can explain that to the boss. I’m off for a shower and a beer.”
Stannia stomped off down the causeway that ran through the warehouse, pushing her way through abandoned crates, reels of cable, abandoned food pods and past the wardrobe mistress’s assistant picking up abandoned clothes. The latter recoiled from a particularly scruffy tunic spattered with dubious stains. Stannia gave her a perfunctory smile, too grateful that she’d graduated from costumier to operative three years ago.
No way was she going back to the first century BCE just to pick up the mess Federicus had left behind. Again. The third time if you wanted to be exact. He was supposed to be a senior operator. Ha! He couldn’t even set the controls without her to check. The gods knew what time period they would have emerged in if she hadn’t. Probably when the little green men had taken over Earth five thousand years in the future. (Read more)
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