Restoration
“ Ashe had watched in disbelief as Chester had raised his gun to shoot the girl. He had reached for his own weapon before realising that to kill Chester would destroy everything, it would destroy the timeline of the box, it would destroy him. Still the gun was in his hand and he raised it in the young man's direction.
The Valencian street began to distort around him. First he thought it was simply exhaustion, then as the ground trembled beneath him and the rows of houses began to blur, th...eir plasterwork and bricks bubbling and melting like candles, he realised it was more. From above, the seagull from his dream came swooping down through a sky that fizzed and warped around it, becoming more liquid than air.
"Don't!" it squawked. "You'll destroy everything!" "But the girl," he said, his voice as distorted as his surroundings. It sounded like he was speaking underwater.
"She dies," the gull insisted, "that's history, like it or not." Ashe watched as Henryk took the gun from his employer and prepared to fire.MoreLess
The Valencian street began to distort around him. First he thought it was simply exhaustion, then as the ground trembled beneath him and the rows of houses began to blur, th...eir plasterwork and bricks bubbling and melting like candles, he realised it was more. From above, the seagull from his dream came swooping down through a sky that fizzed and warped around it, becoming more liquid than air.
"Don't!" it squawked. "You'll destroy everything!" "But the girl," he said, his voice as distorted as his surroundings. It sounded like he was speaking underwater.
"She dies," the gull insisted, "that's history, like it or not." Ashe watched as Henryk took the gun from his employer and prepared to fire.MoreLess
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