Once the competitor reaches the limit in the past, he pulls out his pistol and fires the radioactive marker into the famous Yorkshire granite cliff that has remained unchanged for tens of millions of years. Listen to him, if only I’d made time for that! I arrived at the garage where I set off on my fateful journey, but I wasn’t more than a few moments late, just long enough to change my battery, and I set off back after that stupid girl. Actually, I say “when I met her” wrong, because she was the one who sought me out after hearing from her classmates about my past excursions. “My dear girl,” I told her bluntly, “I don’t know if your coworkers who sent you to me told you, but such a trip costs…”
I let the phrase float in the air, but she nodded delightedly and that’s when I suspected one of her coworkers was trying to mock me. “Well, it’s not quite like that” – an old professor from the Institute explained and showed me the diagrams from their latest experiments.
