It wasn’t until the terms of the trip were explained to me that I realized that the Institute must have tried and failed, and now they were pinning all their hopes on me. Xxx The asteroid passing tumultuously overhead, dinosaurs howling in despair in the distance as if sensing their doom – it was more than a young girl could bear, and as time tensed its muscles and dragged us into the present, they all abandoned themselves without hesitation into my arms. As if all these problems weren’t enough, even the panspermists were split in two: some said that life originated on another planet in the depths of space that eventually exploded for who knows what reason, and pieces of it ended up on Earth in the form of meteorites. As I said, in the first race I took an honorable thirteenth place, although, to be
