Caveat Time Traveller

摘要

He was easy to spot - clothes from the twenty-first century, dazed look. I didn't have to say anything. He blurted out, "Look, I'm from the past, a time traveller. But I get snapped back there in a few minutes."rn"I know." We stood in a small street at the edge of the city, dusk creeping in. Distant, glazed towers gleamed in the sunset and pearly lights popped on down alongrnthe main road. Jaunters always chose to appear at dawn or dusk, where they might not be noticed but could see a town. No point in transporting into a field somewhere, which could be any time at all, even the far past. Good thing he couldn't see the city rubble, too. Or realize this was how I made my living.rnHis mouth twisted in surprise. "You do? I thought I might be the first to come here. To this time."