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Chapters (45)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Prologue
  5. 2046
  6. One
  7. Two
  8. Three
  9. Four
  10. Five
  11. Six
  12. Seven
  13. Eight
  14. Nine
  15. Ten
  16. Eleven
  17. Twelve
  18. Thirteen
  19. Fourteen
  20. Fifteen
  21. Sixteen
  22. Seventeen
  23. Eighteen
  24. Nineteen
  25. Twenty
  26. Twenty-One
  27. Twenty-Two
  28. Twenty-Three
  29. Twenty-Four
  30. Twenty-Five
  31. Twenty-Six
  32. Twenty-Seven
  33. Twenty-Eight
  34. Twenty-Nine
  35. Thirty
  36. Thirty-One
  37. Thirty-Two
  38. Thirty-Three
  39. Thirty-Four
  40. Thirty-Five
  41. Thirty-Six
  42. Thirty-Seven
  43. Thirty-Eight
  44. Thirty-Nine
  45. About the Author

‘Ben shouldn’t be doing it,’ Konrad says. ‘If he dies it’ll be me and you back to bloody extracting people again . . . either that or we go back to before Ben goes and tell him he’ll die and scrap it . . . but then if he never goes after them, then we’ll never know that he dies? Fuck me, this shit is confusing . . .’

Alpha lifts his head and quickly types Mother a message.

We have time, Alfie x

It is confirmed. That conversation just confirmed that the device is within that warehouse. Ben is going to try to rescue Harry and Safa using the device.

Well done. Mother x

Thirty-Six

Thirty-Six

Time gains a whole new perspective. It does not exist but it does exist. It is not linear except it is linear. He can go back in time. He can go forward in time. But the one thing he cannot do is make time pass faster. There are still sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour and each day is filled with twenty-four hours. Actually, he does recall that the Cretaceous period may have had longer or shorter days or something to do with the spinning of the world or something else? He frowns and tries to remember but dismisses the notion and goes back to thinking about time.

Ben woke from his medically induced coma four days ago. He got up, threatened Roland, told everyone he was going to rescue Harry and Safa then promptly passed out.

Ben woke up again three days ago and realised that, despite a cast-iron will, he still has to rely on his physical body. Which is still very weak. Hence the time issue and the perplexing, frustrating paradox that he has to bloody wait until he gets better before he can go and rescue them. He did think, for one flawed second, that he could simply use the time machine to go forward one week but then it would be the weak him going through the device and the weak him coming out the other side in the future. So that wouldn’t work. He then thought that by using the device in such a way he would come face to face with himself. The weak him now and the not-so-weak future Ben. Which would make two Bens. He then considered perhaps he could give himself a hand to rescue Harry and Safa and then had a wild few seconds of wondering how many Bens he could get to help him.