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Any references to people, places, businesses etc is entirely fictitious.
31.5… Breaking and Entering
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A woman with brown hair, dressed in khaki, with a smile that would have been beautiful if it only reached her eyes, was standing on the porch of the Temple home near the Forest of Dean.
In the distance, she could hear the barking call of raptors running close to the fence line in the ARCs creature preserve. She jiggled the burglar tools impatiently. The lock was a good one, and she wasn't getting the door opened as quickly as she thought she might. She poked at the keyhole yet one more time, and this time, the door swung open.
Helen Cutter entered Connor and Abby's home.
She had read tomorrow's paper already and knew the couple was away. They were renewing their vows at Gretna Green. Helen sneered. What a soppy pair of sentimental fools they were she thought. But at least she knew she wouldn't be interrupted today.
Connor was gifted, and he had something she wanted. In his tiny lab beneath the stairs, Helen found a small metallic casing. Sliding the cover back she looked at the beveled glass and number keypad. Surely this was it, the anomaly opening device.
Helen stuffed it into her haversack and then checked the refrigerator. Helen never missed a chance to steal something to eat better than dinosaur eggs. She grabbed a couple of sandwiches from the tray, and then ran out the front door. In her hurry, she tripped coming down the porch steps. She landed face first. Helen came up spitting dirt out of her mouth. Her bottom lip had split open. It was bleeding and already beginning to swell before she got out of the yard.
Helen eagerly pushed some buttons on the stolen device. The air shimmered, fractured and an anomaly opened. She stepped through quickly, closing the anomaly behind her.
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In a dank dark cave in the future, Helen stood face to face with an overgrown burrowing creature. She tossed the stolen sandwiches at it, to buy herself time, while she pushed more buttons on the stolen device. The air shimmered, fractured and an anomaly opened. Helen stepped through, quickly closing the anomaly before the creature decided she looked tasty too.
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Looking at her surroundings, Helen realized that she might not know as much as she thought she did about this device in her hands. She wasn't where she expected to be. But, surely the Silurian was better than that future cave. Right?