While, Even Now...

Poul Anderson, 1146 A. D. IN Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), pp. 381-392.

When Emil Volstrup and Wanda Tamberly, posing as husband and wife, are shown into a room with a double bed, Volstrup offers to take the floor. However, Tamberly points out that the mattress is wide enough for them both to:

"'...rest peaceful.'" (p. 392)

Then she reflects:

"Will I when Manse is working in an uncharted world a hundred years uptime?" (ibid.)

She will share a mattress with Volstrup while Everard is a hundred years in their future? Obviously this is a very loose way of expressing what is happening and will happen. Let us review the temporal situation:

the Time Patrol agents who are addressing the problem of the beta timeline are based in the Patrol Pleistocene lodge in 18,244 BC;

from there-then, Manse Everard, Wanda Tamberly and Karel Novak scouted in 1989beta AD;

then Everard and Tamberly visited Volstrup in Sicily in 1137 AD;

after that, Volstrup and Tamberly went to 1146 AD whereas Everard, Novak and Jack Hall went to 1245beta AD;

therefore, Tamberly thinks of Everard as in a version of 1245 while she is in 1146;

they will compare experiences at a later stage along their world-lines so that it will then be as if they have been in different places at the same time.

There is a Wellsian precedent for this way of speaking about time travelling. Wells' outer narrator reflects that the missing Time Traveller:

"...may even now - if I may use the phrase - be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline seas of the Triassic Age."

-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), EPILOGUE, p. 101.

No, you may not really use that phrase here although it does read well in this passage.