Wanda Tamberly imagines herself ringing the Liberty Bell.
Wanda has belatedly realized that she must have arrived in a divergent timeline. She has been told that, in such an eventualty, she should immediately return to the past. Instead, she decides to stay a little longer to gather some information.
If she is going to be able to travel pastward, then futureward again into the Patrol-guarded timeline, then it makes no difference whether she spends five minutes or fifty years in the alpha timeline. That timeline is not going to exist until some arbitrary moment, then cease to exist, while she is in it. However, the longer she is there, the greater the danger that some accident will separate her from her timecycle. In that case, she would be stranded in the wrong timeline. That is the only reason why she should get out of there fast. As a matter of fact, that is what has happened to Keith Denison and Wanda is able to rescue Keith.
Wanda and Keith had each first appeared in a previous instalment. As it proceeds, the Time Patrol series becomes more complex.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
By and large, I think it's better, most times, to obey the rules. The regulations in the "Book" are generally quite reasonable. I think most of us, in situations analogous to what Wanda found herself in, are not likely to be as successful as she was in breaking the rule to immediately go back as far in the past as it took to contact the Patrol timeline.
I don't think of myself as being at all like an Andersonian hero/heroine!
Ad astra! Sean
Ad astra! Sean
Note that she goes back to the intial layout of the garden feature...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I remember, yet another risk Wanda took.
Ad astra! Sean
Well, I wouldn't call it a -risk-. Rescuing the guy was risky anyway. She did it to cut the time he was a captive.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
But that "cutting short" might have gotten in trouble with the Patrol. Because she "deleted" at least eight years of the time he spent in the alpha timeline. That seems to run the risk of more causal loops.
Add astra! Sean
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