Daily Excerpt Post - November 1st

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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - 1998

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“Can we get the hell out of here now?”, Rattan moaned, “I'm freezing my ass off.”

Danis looked back up the hill and sighed, “Yea, let's get going, there's nothing here.”

They moved to they side of the road, out of sight of any possible passers by. Danis pushed up the sleeve of his coat and revealed a nylon strap band with a wrist top device. He adjusted something on the device and nodded to Rattan who put his hand on Danis' shoulder. With a rush of static in the air, the Pennsylvania countryside swirled away replaced almost immediately by stark white walls. Rattan removed his hand and stretched. Danis kicked a bit of dirt off his boots as they stood waiting.

“Matron, can we get a move on, love?”, Rattan quipped.

“Scans are complete. You are both contaminated with non-contemporary biomatter. Stasis sweeps will take two spans to complete.”, Matron responded.

Danis hated this part. Stasis scans always gave him waves of pins and needle sensations, but better to be safe than sorry, or dead. Matron, the computer overseeing the day to day operations of the temporal portal dock, didn't have much by way of a sense of humor. Then again, it's AI only had the basics of a personality matrix. The designers didn't see a point in making a user friendly gatekeeper, just an efficient one. Once the sweeps were complete, he followed his hasty partner out the biolock doors.

“Where are you in such a hurry to get to?”

“Have a evening planned with an Arkazian mind sculptor. If you don't hear from me in the next 48 hours, inform my kin I died with a smile on my face.”, Rattan grinned as he headed for his alcove.

Danis shook his head as he headed across to his terminal. After tapping the surface and adjusting a few things on the 3D desktop, he turned and hung his coat on a rack along with half a dozen other coats of different time periods. Thinking only briefly that he should have them all laundered, they may all have been cleared of biomatter, but dust and dirt remains. Not all adjustment details were as simple and clean as this last one. Now he just needed some sleep. He scooped up a couple data tablets and headed to his quarters.

Re: Just the beginning

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Hee! My attention is piqued.