The Internet Time Travel Database
“Yes, my boy. I understand your aversion to making any more trips into the historical
Past. You have been a—um—lodestone for violent trouble . .
.”
“Something always happens to me!” exclaimed Pete. “What if I she’d get bumped off in the Past? Nix. No more o’ that stuff for me.”
“Quite
right, my son. And yet—” Mayhem’s benign tone and dreamy stare at the ceiling were
pure ham. “I would never have invited you here again, Pete, knowing it to be a place of
strange memories, except that occasionally in our lives there arise demands that
transcend all selfish personal considerations. Do you follow me?”
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