Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)

by Connie Willis

Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.”

wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.

strange. When I couldn’t find the drop and the plague came, you seemed so far away I would not ever be able to find you again. But I know now that you were here all along, and that nothing, not the Black Death nor seven hundred years, nor death nor things to come nor any other creature could ever separate me from your caring and concern. It was with me every minute.

I, seeing so many evils, have put into writing all the things that I have witnessed. Lest things which should be remembered perish with time.