CHAPTER 12
I spoke up for the first time since having my question ignored. I wanted to show that even though Terri had dismissed my query, I would be dog enough to answer her question, and let bygones be bygones.
“We’re from all over the world,” I said. “More specifically, though, we are from across time & space.”
Terri shook her head as if she were trying to dislodge imaginary cobwebs from her ears. So I answered the implied question and told her all about our former travels together, where all of us were from originally, and finally delivered the bombshell:
“Maybe a more important question for you to ask us would have been, ‘When are you from?’”
I continued: “We come from a place far, far away, but from a time even further away—in the far distant future. Fifteen million years in the future, to be exact!”
For a moment, Terri was stunned into not only silence, but a sort of suspended animation. She stood stiff as a statue, not moving a wingtip. Then she finally blinked—once, then twice. Her eyes seemed to glaze over; after a long pause, she blinked once more, and her eyes were then clear again, even piercing, as she fixed Albert with a stony glare and asked, “Why? Why did you come here?”
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