It was many minutes before I understood, but I finally did, and looking at the germinating liquid oozing into the soil seeding the Planet, I realized that it would be almost another four billion years before a civilization like the one we knew would finally be born. In part, I have to admit that it’s my fault for what happened, but I couldn’t imagine that anyone could be as dumb as this girl. Because I was making this trip somewhat in silly, I admit that I didn’t give her the necessary attention and because of that I didn’t do a minimum of training with her. “What is it?” I asked not too happy about the unforeseen complications. I sped like lightning through the historical period, then into pre-history and accelerated, so now it only took a few minutes to get to the period where I lost Eliza, and even as I looked for her, I was aware that I couldn’t have stopped even if I’d caught a glimpse of her. I would plan my trips so that I would arrive just as the asteroid that was about to fall to Earth was passing overhead. It may be wrong to say that I was “sinking” in time, but that’s exactly what it felt like.
