“You did one of the most beautiful races.”
I took a long look at him, to see if he was mocking me, but the man seemed sincere, so I replied:
“Beautiful my ass, sir. “Well, it’s not quite like that” – an old professor from the Institute explained and showed me the diagrams from their latest experiments. The sky, which should have turned blue as soon as oxygen appeared in the atmosphere, was still black. As I neared the predicted time, the bike’s time speed dropped, and according to the software, the scale automatically scaled to thousands of years per second this time. The asteroid passing tumultuously overhead, dinosaurs howling in despair in the distance as if sensing their doom – it was more than a young girl could bear, and as time tensed its muscles and dragged us into the present, they all abandoned themselves without hesitation into my arms. The trouble began when I met Eliza, a tiny little bookworm, bespectacled and seemingly without any charm. 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. 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
