-2000-: Crocodile

The answer lay in the Nile, sleeping in the sun, with a taste of chrome on his tongue and all the time in the world.

The man saw K’tharr. His eyes went wide. “Alpha point located,” he said into a bead on his wrist. “Releasing temporal suppressant. Target: prehistoric Crocodylus niloticus . ETA to extinction: two thousand years.” crocodile -2000-

Then the disc went dark.

The disc spat out a man. Not a reed-man or a mud-man. This one wore a smooth, white skin over his body and a clear shell over his face. He carried a stick that sparked. The answer lay in the Nile, sleeping in

Year: 2000 BC. Location: The lush, unnamed delta of a river that will one day be called the Nile. “Alpha point located,” he said into a bead on his wrist

He dragged the man under the dark water. The silver disc on the man’s wrist blinked. ERROR. Temporal anchor lost. Paradox imminent.

He settled back onto his mudbank, the one he had guarded for two thousand years before this moment. He closed his bad eye.