31 Lance - Did We Dare Affect the Future by Revealing Ourselves? (1/2)

The silence grew so loud that I could not stand it. ”Ummm, Jane dear. Mind that first step—it is a doozy!”

Jane had a calm, collected look about her, and I knew that Serina, not Jane was in charge.Of the two Jane is by far the most cuddly but Serina was all Marine. She looked at me with that look that had inspired men since before time was recorded to go beyond themselves and find the hero within. ”So what is our battle plan,” Serina asked.”We have to get back home fast. The Duke is still alive somehow.Which means Dad is in imminent danger. You do realize that it was his voice that we heard before that unbearable flash?”

”Yeah, I recognized him.Not only is he alive we know that there is at least one more regent in on this coup attempt.So, about that, is your Dad, an immortal?”

”He is, in fact, he just turned sixty if this is indeed 1948. But right now he is probably in hiding. I doubt we could find him and even if we did. What am I going to say, Hi I'm your daughter from the future? Not even considering that he has little political clout anymore in this time period. And trust me on this one, he is not a technical genius!”

”I understand. Do you understand that the attack on your Dad is not imminent but several centuries in the future? We literally have tons of time. I was more concerned about how long it will take us to get back home considering the only option we have at the moment is to live long enough. But if that were the case, then we would already know about the sneak attack, and it would never have happened which means that we would never have met and could not have gone back in time to…, Oh my head hurts!”

”Oh, poor baby, come let me cuddle you so you can relax and think.”

But knowing where cuddling would lead, I stayed where I was and thought. ”Computer, no that is too long, Serina any good names on tap?”

”I know—how about 'Bit'?”

”Oh, I like it,” the computer chirped.

”OK, I can see where you got it from. Bit it is. So Bit, could you make it a secondary priority to think about how we could get back home? Right now I think we need to get planetside on Terra. Can you look at your databases and find us a decent spot to land and be assimilated into the native population?”

”Don't look now buckwheat, but we have been on our way to earth for some time.”

”Buckwheat?” I queried.