<meta name="LineWrap" content="true"><TITLE>SR_Bk1 0108</TITLE><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0109.txt">Next (Page 109)</A><BR> Not to get too technical, but every Earth has a complex system of event-whastions. The domino-wave that hit us sent the whole thing way off-kilter. At least, that's my theory. I did see it coming, you know. You remember the weird coincidences that happened in the past few days--like a tsunami, disorder was sucked away briefly as the massive disorder deluge was approaching."<P><P>"So how could we revive this Earth's system?" Hate asked.<P><P>Injure smiled in frustration and shook his head.<P><P>"The right event-whastion could resuscitate part of the system, and if it's the right part, it could set off a chain reaction which would totally on-line this Earth again. From there, Aconckwise, it's fortyjult."<P><P>"So what the hell does that mean?" Ferrajalt asked.<P><P>"It means, Prince, that we might be able to make things right by doing something, but we have no idea what that something might be," Injure said.<P><P>"Oh," Ferrajalt said.<P><P>"Okay now wait a minute," Emily burst out. "Why did you say this happened again?"<P><P>Injure regarded the girl.<P><P>"I don't know the cause of the domino-wave--it could have been anything. The Unreal 64, another company like ours, has been doing very dangerous things with reality, so it was probably them. I also definitely read the signature of one of our former associates, a guy named Daptin Gone, in the pre-wave ifo-flow. He could have been working for them. I've heard rumors in that regard."<P><P>"Also," Hate added, "it's well-known that Aconck--our interconnection of Earths--has been tried before, around 500 years ago. They suffered a total collapse as well. And they never recovered. But luckily, that was a different set of Earths. Well, except for Red Alley Earth, which was spared, which is why we know about it.. But I digress."<P><P>"Okay," Emily said, turning to Dolthethmen. "Okay. Dole, you know what you told us. You said you might have caused all this."<P><P>Dolthethmen looked down, tears welling up in his eyes.<P><P>"Let's hear about this!" Injure said in his nerdy manner.<P><P>Dolthethmen frowned and shook his head, as the events of earlier in the day ran through his mind...<P><P>The girl's tongue in his head... he passed out and woke up to her doing sexual things to him, and she revealed she was him from the future... he used vague magic to get away from her, then he went to the mall... met Hasnafter and Ambivale and Emily there... he used vague magic again to make Emily attracted to him... then he went to the Noyage Parlor with them...<P><P>"Um," Dolthethmen said, "I don't know. I guess a lot of stuff happened today. Things kinda got out of hand."<P><P>"In what way?" Injure asked.<P><P>"Well, I guess since you were honest, I'll be honest too," Dolthethmen said, looking up. "I---I think I have powers. Today, what happened was, um, there was this girl who like, assaulted me, y'know, in that way, and it turned out that, y'know, she was basically me in the future. She had come back in time to, whatever, be perverted with her previous self."<P><P>"What?" Emily asked in shock and amazement.<P><P>"Yeah," Dolthethmen said. "The thing is, I was able to get away from her and stuff, but what I had to do was, I mean, I had to like make a mental note, that when I got that powerful, you know, having time travel and stuff, I should go back and save myself from her, and really erase the whole event. So that's what I did. But that's probably what attracted her--me--to that time and place. I don't know."<P><P>"Fascinating!" Injure said. "This is prime stuff!"<P><P>"Okay, okay," Ferrajalt said. "Forget Bodoni--the scientist in him is taking over. So, uh--Dolthethmen was it?--why do you think you caused this? Because of this time travel junk?"<P><P>Dolthethmen sighed.<P><P>"It's not just that. I--it's just that, before..."<P><P>He looked at Emily.<P><P>"When I met you at the mall, Emily, I just--I don't know.<BR><A HREF="SR_Bk1-0109.txt">Next (Page 109)</A>