There's a certain feeling one has when they are passionate about something. It drives them to do things many others wouldn't, go farther than they ever expected they could go. With that in mind, I can't help but think my passion led to all this. I certainly wouldn't have gone looking for all this trouble on purpose. It found me…or should I say: it found us …
As a scientist, I thirst for knowledge. Since my younger years I've been fascinated with the more abstract concepts in our universe. My favorite subject to ponder? Time. The passing of years, the endless cycle of day and night down to the very ticking of a clock and those precious seconds that affects all of us whether we know it or not. Even with the time machine, My curiosity wasn't sated. I needed to know more.
There was many a time I'd stay behind at work just for research. It seemed like a standard night when this all started. I was looking over at some files Rasa needed me to see… While doing some 'tests' of my own.
Since our 'incident' involving Tan and the time stream, the time machine hadn't been used. After all, what for? The world of dance was at peace, so there was no reason for anyone to use it. It was that very peace that lead me to frustration. I wanted to know more about the time stream, but in order to do any sort of research for such a thing, I'd have to get Rasa involved. I do care for him, but sadly if he had known my research would have been curbed. Perhaps it would have been better if I had told him, But the past is in the past.
I had been digging into the time stream for a while by this time. I was finding all sorts of new things… Little did I know what I would find that night would change lives, including mine, forever.
- For the longest time I've been poking into the time stream (avoiding the good doctor, of course) looking for something. Anything that I could find really. The hunger I had to know more of the flow of time itself drove me into breaking the barriers of what mere mortals should know about it. Sometimes there are just some things man was never meant to see
Me? It just so happened I managed to stumble upon such a thing.
It was brilliant; a mass of energy snapped and sparked within the machine. It glowed brilliantly within the otherwise dark lab I was in, covering the walls with flecks of color. In the months I had spent observing the time stream, nothing like this had ever appeared before. 'Excitement' didn't cover the feeling I had at the time.
To this day I'm still not sure what compelled me to do what I did next. Was it my natural curiosity as a human being? A brief moment of stupidity in my astonishment? The idea I'd quench that burning thirst for knowledge I had in my body? Hell, It could have even been destiny itself. Whatever caused it, it would change everything I knew.
I touched the damn thing.