Cindy Lau’s mother died when Cindy was young, motivating adult Cindy to invent time travel in order to spend as much time as possible with her mother before the death.
Nobody thought Cindy would devote her life to studying the nature of time solely to fill the hold in her heart, even as she immersed herself in the subject during the last year of her undergrad degree. Nobody believed she would succeed when the mechanics of temporal movement had eluded some of the greatest minds in physics.

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  1. “Unfillable Void” by Teresa Robeson, in Out of Time: Five Tales of Time Travel, by Janet Guy et al Unknown publisher, 2013 [e-book].
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Teresa Robeson