Love Across Time

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e days since Jam

d saved him. But now, the connect

Had he left the war behind

hing gone te

d her pen

me

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th

est ti

ever meant to last beyond that single moment-beyond the day she

d to believe t

embled as sh

u're out ther

ge, vanishing as it always did.

. No tra

sil

velyn felt the true weigh

st T

rch. She scoured historical archives, searchin

und no

er his escape. No census reports. N

had vanished f

that he had lived, that he had built a new life somewhere. But

de no

e had survived. But someho

h

per in t

ght, something s

g beside her on the nightstand, when a s

p, heart

s shut. The d

-something shif

e corner of her

di

ng, as if an unseen h

ushing against the paper. The ink on the last written pa

new word

... I

ga

me

k shim

am. Time is... wrong.

ands

do yo

pause

I ran north, just as you wanted me to.

ind r

cha

as if he was wri

is anymore, Evelyn. I do

omach

supposed to work. She had only wanted to save him from dying in battle.

do you see around you? Wha

came slowe

s, the streets... nothing looks as i

lse th

mes somehow been pu

o longer

ser to her

ent shivers d

me exactly w

to the page, un

eople wear strange clothes. Nothing is

s breat

ed like th

here. S

the pen, her

you see any signs? Anything that s

pause. Then, fina

Yo

blood w

Yo

om 1863, was somehow standin

orld

d to f

ey Thro

e. She packed a bag, grabbed the diary

s possible. She didn't know what f

he was alone in a worl

d to bring

earch

City wa

crowded streets, the dia

ed to find a man who had no identific

d one

James to ke

e had no intention of drinking. She flipped open t

I'm in New York

nk va

ed the pe

s respon

know. I

art sq

e where

verywhere. I have no money. People

that was bad. Someone could call the police, th

iet. A library, a church-anywhere yo

use.

ill

Again

ecked libraries, old churches, anyw

he found herself

ght as she sca

th

saw

a bench, wearing outd

, his face shadowed with e

me

s as she stepped clo

aze l

eyes met, the world a

d foun

after defying histo

iv

she was the only thing

hispered, his

ut a shak

she whisp

nt, time itself