Flashback

To those who kept the faith.

‘When, in 2023, I created the first machine that successfully sent matter through time, I was prepared for most of the things that happened to me and my colleagues. I was not prepared for the jealousy and the murder. Those things were not, as I had thought, things of the past. They were real—here and now.’

Jennifer Proctor, interviewed for Newton, Einstein, Proctor: On The Shoulders of Giants (2092)

‘The greatest tragedy of time travel? Nothing can be changed, whatever you do. Trust me on this. What’s done is done.’

David Proctor, father of Jennifer Proctor, in private correspondence dated August 2048