It was early morning in the streets of modern Corus. The traffic was sluggishly moving on its way and Bob Smith was opening his fruit shop ready for the days trading when he heard a shout. He looked down the street and noticed a girl of around 15 running for her life closely followed by two policemen. She was skinny and of average height. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail and if it were clean it would have been blonde. She wore old baggy jeans and a t-shirt at least two sizes too big for her. The police pursued her down the street an around the corner. Bob sighed he had seen her many times running around with other street kids often dirty and looking underfed. And without another thought bob turned back to his work and didn't think of her again.
The girl however was still trying to evade the two coppers chasing her. She was slowly running out of energy. She furiously wished the police would give up chasing her. She had only shop lifted a chocolate bar, but had stupidly done it in front of the two officers. They were now on the out skirts of town, she was running out of places to run. She couldn't let herself be caught she had too many unpunished offences. She turned into an alley and hit a dead end. She could hear the policemen approaching fast. I need a place to hide she thought desperately; somewhere they'll never find me. There was a clatter as the two coppers turned into the alley, garbage from the fallen bin went everywhere. "Now come with us nice and quietly" said the younger one "there's no need to be scared".
"Screw you," she said angrily but before she could get an answer she was engulfed in silver light. Everything around her seemed to be going backwards the two cops left the alley cars in the street sped by in reverse then the buildings around her were unbuilt piece by piece other buildings rose up in their place and then were also unbuilt. But everything was becoming less and less modern; the cars in the street were changing to then be replaced by carriages. Faster she sped back until the silver light disappeared. She was standing on a rise when she turned around and could see Corus spread on either side of the river olurun. As she stood trying to figure out what had happened there was a shout from behind her she spun around and glimpsed a large golden haired man in olden time clothes before everything went black.