THE SLIDE : Part 3
Chapter 31 | Time Out of Joint
Mystery, Time Travel, Karma
Warning: Two Brief Scenes of Graphic Violence
Outside a Mayan City-State, 3085 BCE
Farha arrived along the outbound route she and Hrez had taken instead of through the Churn. Cascading images of the near future washed over her and she made course corrections through the time travel stream. As she approached the cocoon, she instinctively created a ball of light around herself and slipped through the boundary to the interior of the cocoon.
Sophia confronted her with a broadsword until she realized it was Farha.
βYou got my -,β Farha stopped short, glancing at the two cocoon pods, each with a body inside.
Farha looked down, about to exclaim shock, when she saw herself in the fetal position. She collapsed to the ground.
βIβm okay. I did not faint. My body gets startled sometimes,β Farha reassured Sophia.
βDo you know what happened?β they both spoke simultaneously. There was a pause, followed by laughter.
βDid we ever come back from the first trip?β Farha asked.
βI donβt know, but I donβt think so. I got lost in confusion for a few days. And asβ¦