Read Time and Again: A Collection of Crazy Chronology Page 24

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  The target was Oregon Governor Alex Lee, the man most of the pundits believed was going to be the runaway winner of the 2028 presidential election in five months. Historical analyses of parallel stories showed that Lee could really shake things up in a bad way. A parallel story is what the Stewards studied before heading out on missions – missions to ensure the primary future desired by the Syndicate.

  To most laymen it was all gobbledygook. “They just want to know that life will be good,” Syndicate Chair Alistair Falternan always said. “They don’t care how we do it, they just want to make sure we keep doing it. We’re the plumbers of history.”

  So Governor Alex Lee was about to be flushed.

  But out of a sense of self-preservation, coupled with a growing resentment of Zim Harley, Eli Yon was going to make sure that he got the credit for this one.

  Even if it meant breaking some rules.

  Yon had been told before his last time displacement that he was due for a layover – a six week period of inactivity to prevent temporal dysphasia. But on his return to base, Yon managed to trade an old friend in the business for three more displacement credits. It cost him a lot of money and favor promises – and it could end up destroying his mind – but he was determined to steal this win back from Harley and rescue his own career.