Cal stopped and bent over to look at something in the wall near the floor. "Are these bones?" She smirked as she leaned in closer "wait, do these look human to you?"
"Cal," Recke closed his eyes and rubbed the bride of his nose "we can't have people traipsing through here." Recke sighed "I know your kidding, and it's not funny."
Cal stood up smiling "at least I know what I won't be finding in here."
Recke exhaled sharply in frustration "Now who's breaking the don't tell rule?" His face was serious as he looked her up and down "we have to find the LU before they send someone else."
"LU?" Cal shifted her weight and folded her arms across her waist "what does that stand for?"
"Lost and Unknown" he stated in monotone "as far as we know it's only one item here, so we are looking for LU-1"
"Why LU-1," she laughed you mean to tell me you reset the number with every case?"
"Yes, because some of the cases get sealed" he took a deep breath as if remembering something "it resets so those bits of evidence just disappear, with the constant alterations to the timeline if it wasn't per case it would get. . . complicated." He sighed.
"Wait, if the evidence disappears. . . what gets complicated?" Cal peered around a corner into a dead end tunnel.
"The organizations that maintain the timeline exist outside of the timeline." He pointed at a skintight band on his wrist "this maintains the field that does it. . . Protects me from the jumps."
Cal tried to look at the band closer but Recke wouldn't let her touch it "So anyone can Time Jump as long as they have that band?" Cal pointed at it and stepped back towards the dead end tunnel, then headed in deeper, deciding to go around it.
"No, there is a preexisting genetic." Recke kicked at the ground as they kept walking "Time Jumping originated with an allied race" he gently sidestepped the word alien "but the Genetic only exists within the Human species. It was discovered purely by accident."
Cal stopped and turned to face Recke "What no fine details, not going to tell me the long drawn out story?"
Recke smiled at her slyly "rules of operation."
"Interesting," she turned and continued heading into the mine.
"Yeah, the rules of operation are so damn interesting" Recke sounded bored but was just trying to not get distracted, he was determined not to miss anything.
"I wasn't referring to those, I was referring to you." She chuckled "the way you speak reveals more about you then what you speak."
"I don't follow," Recke moved Cal's arm to the side so he could look at some items on the ground as they went by them.
"You have little use for rules, you feel you would be more successful without them." Cal took a breath "and in reality you are smart enough with a high enough moral standard to be able to operate without them and accomplish much more if people just simply trusted you more than they currently do."
"Well Damn." Recke smiled "you forgot one thing..."
"No, I chose to leave out the fact that you are an arrogant bastard." Cal paused and redirected the light down a side tunnel "what is that?"
YOU ARE READING
The Old Mine
General FictionWhen Cal bought the Old Gamblers mine she was not expecting the events that came... Playing a twisted game of find the object, rude (and cute) Time jumpers, the constant threat on her life, trying to save the future, and having to say goodbye to her...
