As I said before, on the way back my role was more decorative, because the bike was simply dragged back to the present on the old time road, without having to ride it at all. Years ago, after a complete set of tests, McTroy explained to me that I had the best combination of genes ever encountered that would allow me to perform in ways unmatched by other time travelers. As if all these problems weren’t enough, even the panspermists were split in two: some said that life originated on another planet in the depths of space that eventually exploded for who knows what reason, and pieces of it ended up on Earth in the form of meteorites. I don’t think we’ve gone past ten thousand. “I was right, but I’d like to ask you one more favor!” she said and I think I felt her blush behind me. Out of surprise, I dropped the two conjoined cones from my hand and in mere seconds they broke open and spilled their liquid contents onto the barren soil of the Earth. That little bit of training McTroy was talking
