Nomura on his timecycle hovers before a wall of water, both ends hidden by the curve of the planet, and enters its spume. His helmet protects his hearing although his teeth and bones rattle as he fights the winds. He travels backward and forward in time until he sees Feliz's timecyle fall and his younger self flee for help. Then he seeks and finds the falling timecycle and locks his tractor beam onto it but would have been pulled down with it if not for his older selves returning to add the combined strengths of their tractor beams. Thus, one man achieves what a Time Patrol team had refused to attempt. It is recorded that Feliz a Rach never returned home but no inquiries had been made about Mrs. Thomas Nomura.
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Kaor, Paul!
I remember how, when discussing Stirling's Time Patrol pastiche, "A Slip in Time," we both wondered if the means by which Manse had been rescued could canonically be considered a legitimate extension of what we see in Anderson's stories. Stirling was interested enough to comment that it was Tom Nomura's method of rescuing Feliz in "Gibraltar Falls" which gave him the inspiration for how he wrote "A Slip in Time."
Ad astra! Sean
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