Fresh from graduation (last in his class at the time travel cop academy), Blake Din is assigned to Senior Agent Mara Riesling (not much older than him) for field training.
I wasn’t overjoyed about running solo through a strange city where every other one of the barbarians was carrying a gun, but that was the job. The job I’d been working toward for six years of secondary school and another three years in the Academy.

Variants

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  1. “The First Cut” by Edward W. Robertson, in Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel (edited by David Gatewood, David Gatewood) May 2014.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Edward W. Robertson