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transfer platform actually is Pendelshape. When you’re meddling with time travel – anything can happen.”
    “Can’t be. It makes no sense… and anyway… where was he going?”
    Jack thought for a moment. “That’s what I’m saying. It could be they had a fight with Dad and… Dad ended up using the Taurus to escape. That man we saw is going after him. Perhaps it’s Dad who’s hurt. Maybe badly hurt.” Jack turned to Angus his face set in grim determination. “I’m going after him, Angus.”
    “Hold on – that’s nuts. We don’t know where they’ve gone. Anyway, your dad knows how to look after himself.”
    “Not if he’s badly injured.” Jack challenged Angus, “You going to help me or not?”
    Angus paused and looked back at Jack, “What do you think? Let you go off on your own, getting into trouble and having all the fun. No way. I’m in.”
    For a split second a smile shaped Jack’s lips.
    He turned to the Taurus control area. “See there – all those time phones are ready in their pods, but two are missing… if I can get into the system the online activity log should tell me where they’ve gone…”
    Jack tapped at a keyboard. Over the last few months he had become more and more proficient with VIGIL’s astonishing technology – and the Revisionist systems seemed to be just the same. He was no expert but he knew enough.
    “I’ve got it… the summary activity log…” His eyes narrowed at the screen, “But I don’t get it.”
    “What?”
    “It can’t be…”
    The information on the recent Taurus time-travel event blinked back at them.
    TAURUS ACTIVITY LOG
    Departure summary:
    Time Phone Serial:009
    Time Phone Holder: Fenton P.
    Departure Date: June 23rd 2013 / 2:45 p.m.
    Departure Location: Firth of Forth,
    Scotland.
    Arrival summary:
    Time Phone Serial: 009
    Time Phone Holder: Fenton P.
    Arrival Date: July 15th 2046 / 11:23 p.m.
    Arrival Location: Firth of Forth, Scotland.
    “Fenton P. Is that the name of the guy we saw on the transfer platform…?”
    “Could be… but look again… look at his arrival date .”
    Angus peered at the screen. “Well there’s the date and time – but, hold on, it says 2046. But that’s in…”
    Jack finished Angus’s sentence, “…the future.”
    “That’s…”
    “…impossible?” Jack said.
    “You think your dad has modified the Revisionist Taurus so it can transport people to the future ?”
    “Look, if I scroll down, I should get the previous time-travel event…”
    Jack tapped the mouse. “Yes… Look!” He said, triumphantly.
    TAURUS ACTIVITY LOG
    Departure summary:
    Time Phone Serial: 002
    Time Phone Holder: Tom C.
    Departure Date: June 23rd 2013 / 2:29 p.m.
    Departure Location: Firth of Forth,
    Scotland.
    Arrival summary:
    Time Phone Serial: 009
    Time Phone Holder: Tom C.
    Arrival Date: July 14th 2046 / 10:09 p.m.
    Arrival Location: Firth of Forth, Scotland.
    “This proves Dad was here. There’s hardly going to be anotherTom C. – and it shows that he left here just before that Fenton guy followed him. Looks like it was a close call. He went to the future – and Fenton followed him there. But that’s interesting… the arrival date is different. Dad got there a day earlier.”
    “Why would that be? I mean, if Fenton was after him, why not arrive before and surprise him?”
    “Yeah… it must be the time signal constraints. You know – you can’t just go when and where you want. You set the parameters you want and the Taurus is programmed to do its best to meet them. But it tries to avoid people flying repeatedly in and out of the same space and time.”
    “Armageddon scenario.”
    “Right. The VIGIL guys say the Taurus tries to manage it, but it’s risky. The constraints can vary. So Fenton probably got as close as he could to when Dad arrived.”
    “So now what?”
    Jack’s brow furrowed as he stared at the screen in front of them. “I think it’s pretty obvious, don’t you?”
    “We’ll need some