The Future Is Heaven

rprise. The next jump was always a mystery. They did not survive by wits or wisdom so muc

uch sometimes, "

-naturedly. "A

her times, " she

ng along a rive

of time for tal

as just on the r

too. And I alw

o need to say it

s something un

s the water. Cl

e old patterns of loving each other. If anything it was their love that was going to find them out in the end. As soon as they started getting close old habits were hard to i

turn again to

ountains—passing through a zoo of exotica animals on their

d she let it sit on her shoulder giggling. "We shouldn'

hat logic then w

get tired of the r

hat! the parrot ch

p him? I think h

thing that we wo

t all … We nev

t. Let's nam

good luck char

l he becomes a

kissed Rock to

thousand miles away—then again another five away—and then back five hundred years—blazin

e fishing village. Next time it would be a ski resort. Sometime it would be the big city hubbub that coveredthem—o

mell them. Whereas he was never wickedly minded toward Rocko before, now he was thinking ever

seasoned Tempor Assassins all ready to die—charged with the task of fixing

ack's life if he failed. There was every motivation for their unit to succeed

nd one time they were almost upon Rock and Star hiding ou

head to scope ou

first mistake. S

st to see some bloodshed either way. The length of the

osing in on the cabin window by inter-dimensional stealt

ed for him to hold his position. But then he heard the two exiting out a back

elled under his

the moment you let prey get away—or the very hair-line in time you got away. It was the unlikel

pear into the wood. He bounded on like a cat in a deep k

been close the entire time, but now saw it was his turn to i

a bolt fly out across the wind into Vigor's back felling

tico took a dozen odd hits—tumbling through the air to

deal with instead of Vigor. Vigor was already out of ran

report back to

d sparing no risk just to get ahead a few more yards. Vig

through History—through the butterfly effect creating giant ripples in Eterniti—threatening

was their best defense—to constantly

or ways to wire

simple twists tu

rmath—a wake in their passing—improved their chances th

the peak of a valley and finally st

ed electricity to

—holding hands

of the wood in

o the folds of H

disappear—the

ept at Timejum

concentration on demand—and he knew every moment he st

arder and harder it became to focus—

distance. Then they were riding a bullet train over a metropolis. Next they were hiding out in

a plane across a great ocean toward a different continent. Next they toured a space station on Mars—next they stowed aw

he werewithal about Timejumping—while Vigor had the musc

he must, but he would let Vigor have

a building catching a helicopter—constantly came within tauntingly short reach of them just t

ld back a bit, let them think they were getting away for good—perhaps then they would slip u

g held up. He had to explain his plan to Aegeless One constantly. He knew his life was on the line over the risk he was taking—but he a

longer before