Bad Timing - Chapter 10 - Beyond Pacifica

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Kyran dragged Del across the floor, his grip like a vice.  He shoved her toward the charred debris of the wreckage.  Del’s eyes roved over the remains of deadly hooks and clubs, butcher knives and other horrible things.

 

“Do you know what our kind do to poachers?” Kyran sneered. 

 

Del snatched her arm away from his grasp.  “I’m not a poacher!  This is not from my little boat.  I had an inflatable with a small outboard.  I’m a conservationist, not a poacher.  How dare you accuse me of such a thing?”  Del’s indignation turned hot as she realized what the equipment before her was meant for.  “I just jumped to the wrong place and time, that’s all,” Del said.

 

“What do you mean, you jumped?” Kyran asked, his eyes small slits of suspicion.

 

Del’s cheeks flushed red and she looked away.  “I’m a time jumper.  You know, time traveler.  I came here to collect an extinct species of frog from the Galapagos to repopulated it in the future.”  Del spotted her backpack, tattered and in a messy heap.  She knelt down, rummaged through the broken equipment and winced when she saw her time remoter blackened and warped.

 

“How far back did you travel?” Kira asked behind her.

 

“One hundred years,” Del said.  “Contrary to what the government’s promise, there are plenty of ships expelling pollution near this area.  Tour groups are kept on a strict path, leaving an insignificant footprint.  But other so-called scientist, looking to make a name for themselves are careless and their discoveries come at a heavy cost to the ecosystem,” Del explained.  She looked back and saw Kira’s wide eyed expression and Kyran’s hard stare of disbelief.  She saw something else in his unforgiving green eyes.  He turned away from her.

 

“Time travel’s impossible,” He said.

 

“It is now but in ninety-eight years, the discovery will startle the world.”

 

“Well it looks like you’ve managed to destroy the ecosystem earlier than scheduled.  But at least you killed off potential poachers in the process.  Go home, Delphina,” Kyran said.

 

“Wait!  I can fix this.  I can prevent the accident and fix my last jump.  Please!  Then I’ll leave,” Del said.

 

“Where would you go?  Back to your time?” Kira asked.

 

“Unfortunately, this is what’s left of my time device,” Del said, holding up the mangled remote for them to see.  “I’ll just have to find another way home.  I know the logic, and the basic science.  I just need to find someone to create the event.”

 

“If your machine is broken, how will you fix this disaster?” Kyran asked.

 

Del unhooked her bracelet and shook out a large white capsule. 

 

“With this.”

 

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Bad Timing - Chapter 10 - Beyond Pacifica