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Excerpt from: Questions of Reality

So they then retraced their steps backwards.

 

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Excerpt from: The Engineer and the Time Lady

“I knew you would say that.”

 

“And we can use the Toronto to follow him if he leaves town.”

 

“It would be risky,” Albert pointed out.

 

“Of course,” Hernandez said.

 

 

They followed the car through the passageways of the University. It seemed that people were shopping and going out late this evening. The University may have been deserted, but Oxford wasn't. 'One thing doesn't change through time and alternative univeses,” Hernandez mused. 'The propensity for some people to leave the business of obtaining Christmas gifts to the last minute.' One thing was certain however. The Man was taking the energy source in an easterly direction. Was he heading towards London?

 

She directed the PADD to load the map of London for 1974, alongside the scan of the city the Toronto took from orbit. '5% missmatch,' she thought. Most of the mismatch was in the outer areas.

 

 

10 minutes later. “He's left Oxford on the A40,” Hernandez reported.

 

“I'll call the Toronto then?” Albert asked.

 

“Yes. Call the shuttle,” Hernandez ordered.

 

 

Given the early evening traffic, it was difficult to find a spot where the shuttle wouldn't be seen. But they did find an isolated spot where it was able to land. Soon they were flying low over the Oxford rooftops. “We have forty minutes before he reaches the outskirts of London,” Hernandez said.

 

“Plenty of time,” Lawson said.

 

“But he may stop off somewhere on the way,” Hernandez said. She turned to Albert who was getting into the pilot's seat. “Close in on him, less than 50 meters behind, and just high enough to avoid any trees and power cables.”

 

“Aye, Lieutenant,” Albert said.

 

 

Less than a two minutes later, they had closed in on the person's car. “Scanning that vehicle,” Lawson said.

 

“Right,” Hernandez said, looking over at his screen.

 

“It's an Aston Martin DB5,” Lawson reported, seeing it match with the Baffin's database on the 20^th Century. “But, there seem to be a large number of aftermarket modifications, including integrated weapons and an ejector system built into the passenger seat.”

 

“So, he may be a government agent,” Hernandez surmised. “Figures. That makes it more difficult, but not impossible.”

 

“A direct confrontation would be difficult,” Lawson said.

 

“Grab his DB5 in a tractor beam?” Albert asked.

 

“That would be risky, as would trying to hold him in the transporter buffer be,” Hernandez answered. “Scan that DB5 again. Maybe we can find some weaknesses.”

 

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Excerpt from: Changes in Time and Space – Chapter 75

“In any case, why did you invade Earth?” the Doctor asked.

 

“I'm not answering,” Kellira said.

 

“You know, I thought Drahvins would be smarter than to fall for the 'abandoned Thal ship trick'. But I guess I was wrong.”

 

Kellira fumed. The Doctor could see he would get no answers out of her. He didn't think the Drahvins were connected to Felicia's quandry anyway.

 

 

“No answer?” Anderson asked.

 

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Excerpt from: Changes in Time and Space – Chapter 15

There was something there. Just furniture. She looked around the room again. She found a piece of paper in one of the drawers. It was blank. 'There might be invisible writing on it,' she thought, so she pocketed it.

 

 

The Doctor and Kellie came to a branch in the corridor. “Which way?” the Doctor asked.

 

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Excerpt from: Changes in Space and Time

The explorer companion cautiously approached the place where the TARDIS had indicated that there had been an anomaly. She wondered what sort of anomaly it was.

 

Felicia saw the people come together around her. ‘One of them is definitely Susan,’ she thought, looking around at the people. Even after all this time she couldn’t tell who was Human and who was merely humanoid at a glance. ‘Unless their skin was green or some other non-melaninic colour,’ she thought.

“Hello, Susan.”

 

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Excerpt from: Haru and the Baron

“Sure,” the Baron said, as he handed Haru one of the books.

 

 

The first page Haru looked at was a diagram of the square the Bureau was in. It noted that her world wasn’t the only world the square connected to. ‘So what are these other worlds like?’ she wondered. She then turned to the index.

 

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Excerpt from: Reverse Map Game 2017

1801

North America

The United States pushes west. More native tribes are displaced. There is some dissent in Congress on the matter, but it is minor.

 

Tiyanhaian slowly pushes east.

 

 

South America

The Monarchist revolution expands.

 

 

Africa

Ethiopia defeats an Ogaden rebellion.

 

 

Europe

In France, the Radical Republicans are now confined only to Ille de France.

 

The Hohenzollern rebels lay siege to Berlin…

 

 

Asia

 

 

Oceania

Further Antipodian expansion into the Outback occurs.

 

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