Part 22 (1/2)

Mark and Sam may be able to help.

Find Mom's files.

Quentin Steinam investments.

Lex Parsimoniae.

Nothing is set in stone a But please, do not change too much a Sam is the right choice Do NOT listen to Mom.

Do NOT let Mom use the stones on May 6, 2013.

July 12, 2013 a Date of the bomb that was not a bomb? >.

Abbey's iPhone trembled in her hand. The message was sent from...her own phone. Her future self? Or someone else who had accessed her phone?

Sam is the right choice? The bomb that was not a bomb, in less than a year? On July twelfth? That was the week of Science Camp. And what on earth did Russell Andrews have to do with anything? She'd forgotten that Dr. Ford had mentioned Russell. Mentioned Russell, as if he knew about the stones, too.

Her fingers shook as she typed 'Russell Andrews Coventry City' into Google. The circle icon at the top of her iPhone whirled, and then text started to fill the screen.

Andrews Mining Company, read the entry at the top of the list.

Andrews Mining Company. Could it be Russell's dad's company? Russell Andrews/ALICE, the text message read. What did Russell Andrews have to do with Aluminum Ice?

So many questions, and she was too exhausted to make sense of any of them. She needed rest, but her mind kept playing back the items on the list in a recursive loop.

Save Jake.

Don't listen to Mom.

July 13, 2013.

Do not change too much.

Abbey lay back down and tried to silence her racing thoughts by reciting the derivatives of displacement.