I’m Steven McTroy, who has the pleasure of organizing these contests.”
His photos littered the place, so surely I should have recognized him, but since I had entered the contest through an intermediary, I hadn’t had a chance to speak to him in person until then. ‘It’s been explained to me,’ she said, her glasses glittering with excitement. 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. It was not for sale, but for me, a champion for so many years, it was not a problem to get the necessary authorizations. As time strained its powers behind me to pull me back to the present, I raised my pistol and fired at the rock, an instant before I was jerked forcefully back to the present. It’s the fact that they don’t that gives these races their charm and makes them watched by millions of fans. Just as precisely they calculated the location, so that whatever arrived from the sky fell within a few meters of me.
