It wasn't his choice. Where he went, or how he got there, or who he met. It was just a thing that happened to him.
It was all just something that happened, and Darren had always been the kind of person to 'go with the flow'. But one thing he did notice was that he never stayed in one place longer than six months. At first he hadn't paid much attention to how long he had at one placeāhe just enjoyed himself. Journeyed around the time and place he had landed in, searching and learning new, wonderful things.
Such wonderful things, Darren would find. Fascinating things from the past and from the future; magnificent people, both from before his time and after his time. Wonderful discoveries, things he'd never felt before.
And none of that was his choice. It all just came to him, not unwanted, but as a shock. And what was to come for Darren next was going to be the biggest shock of them all, out of anything else he'd ever endured or discovered.
He was finally going to learn what love was.
