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Patricia Reding
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
Time Travel?
Of course, this story does not include any time traveling, still I found Dixon's response to Mara's inquiry to be interesting. As she's trying to figure out their geographic whereabouts and asks where they are, he's thinking that what she really needs to know is how long she'd been unconscious. Thus, he asks her if she doesn't really want to know "when are we?" Have you ever awakened and wondered "when" you are? I admit that it happens to me almost daily. As I keep a rather odd schedule, I frequently awaken wondering what day of the week it is, as from there, I can figure out if I need to get up right away, hurry to prepare for work or some other commitment, or if I can sleep in. That state between sleep (or unconsciousness in the case of this story) and wakefulness can be confusing. Don't you agree? Do you ever ask yourself "when" are you?
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Several quiet minutes passed. Little by little, the color returned to her cheeks and her eyes grew clearer.
“More please.” She reached for the canteen.
“I can help.”
“I’ve got it now.”
He handed it to her.
She took a good long drink. When finished, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. “Better.”
She looked around the campsite, from the canvas overhead, to the smoking fire, to the pile of ready weaponry, to the tethered horses nearby. “Where are we?”
He hesitated. “Ahhh . . . what do you remember?”
“I— We— Weren’t we going somewhere?”
“We were.”
“Where?”
“You wanted to go back home.”
“Home!”
“That’s right. You thought your mother would be worrying for you.”
“My mother?” Her eyes narrowed. Then, slowly, she nodded. “Yes, of course, I’m going home.”
He smiled weakly.
Suddenly she became agitated. “Goodness, we’d best hurry if we’re going to make it down the mountain before nightfall.”
He grasped her forearm. “No, it’s all right. Relax.”
“But we have to hurry.”
He chuckled. “It’s no problem. We’ve been here for days.”
“Days!”
“Yes, it was a few days ago that—”
“Days?” she interrupted. “What happened?”
“I suppose you might as well have asked earlier, ‘when’ are we?” he said, grinning.
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