Excerpt from Murder on the Eros Star
A short story from the Escape 2 Earth series
When Da’Quan entered the room Jada was sitting up in the bed, she took one look at Da’Quan and covered her eyes. Okay, she said, this is really embarrassing. Jada was a proud Lazonian female who never liked to ask for help. She moved her hand away from her face and asked, “aren’t you supposed to be at the Festival of Life on Lazon?” Da’Quan walked over to the bed and held her hand, “there’s always next year. Jada, who did this to you?” Jada looked across the room at Brazoll; she told Da’Quan how Brazoll works behind the bar to earn extra credits when he is not working his main job on the ship’s security force.
“One evening while I waited for Brazoll to complete his shift we overheard two passengers talking about a time machine. One of them said that he was to meet someone here on the Eros Star to acquire the main component to power a time ship. Brazoll thought that it was pure
fantasy; he said that the passenger reeked of the drug Obvious.” Jada was still in pain; she adjusted herself in the bed, turned to Da’Quan and continued her story. “It was clear to me that he was on something, he probably just left one of the private dens on the bottom deck of the ship, anyway I remembered the story you told me a long time ago about a Guild of Time Traveler Historians.” Jada nodded, hoping that it would somehow jog his memory; “you know the clandestine group of Lazonians who travel through time recording historic events as they occur so that they could return to the future and correct the errors in our hall of records.” Da’Quan remembered the conversation. “Jada, no one knows when or where they will show up, they are sworn to secrecy so they don’t pollute the timeline. The Time Travelers are forbidden to interact with anyone outside of their own time. Do you realize the chaos and damage that could be done if just one Time Ship should fall into the wrong hands? Do you understand the ramifications……..
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