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The newb is looking for cats while he is looking for the bird stump because he is afraid of the wrath of Lady Schrapnell. He does not want to be reassigned to jumble sales. Mr. Spivens returns and he starts talking to him and waxing poetically and BOINK he gets yanked back to Oxford.

Mr. Spivens is a dog! Why would they take a dog time-traveling? The new recruit is a newb. He’s amazed at the wonder of it all because he saw a black cat and cats are extinct in 2057. It looks like they went extinct in 2017. Ned wants him to shut up and get to work. It’s his first drop so he’s clueless. They find some twisted metallic but it’s a sand bucket and the verger cries because he hung it up the night before.

The verger tells them about a guy who lit a match the week before. Someone foolish could have led the luftwaffe there. The provost was there all night, heartbroken. The merger said someone has been on watch to catch looters except for a half hour for tea. Ned decides that no looter would steal a bishop's bird stump. He found a bulletin from the previous Sunday that mentioned flowers in the bird stump. Proof of life.

She gives them the same speech often. They find the screen that it was sitting in front of. Their next theory is the concussion of the blast blew it into the nave. Carruthers shows signs of tim lag. He sees a star and quotes sappy Victorian poetry. Time travel messes with the mind. He is also irritable. LS does not believe in time and place slippage nor lag. He thinks he should say it was there and call it a day.

Lady Schrapnell reminds me of a Wodehouse aunt so her name is hilarious. Ned has made 12 drops for garage sales in the past two months. Before that, it was the measurements of organ pipes. Before that, inscriptions on monuments. He interviewed an old bishop's wife. Lady Schrapnell wants to rebuild the bombed out one to exactly like it was. Her ancestor's diary said something life-changing happened there.

Okay so if he’s in 1888 or so and the bird stump was there for 80 years before WWII tHeN hE cAn JuSt ChEcK iT oUt NoW

Everyone is a mess and you should not send a time-lagged guy anywhere with a cat

This cat needs to stop doing stupid things

Lady Schrapnell needs to stop caring about the Coventry Chapel

Also how in the world did cats go extinct in the future because there are so many zillions of them right now