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Another Tale of Time City
Chapter 2
Lost in Time City
Still later that same day…
Vivian had just gotten home from Dr. Rednalliw's lesson when her 15 year old brother Sam knocked on her door.
"Vi! Vi, can I use your automat?" Sam called.
Vivian sighed, "Sure Sam, come in. But try to be quiet! I'm working on homework from Dr. Rednalliw's class. You really should stop skipping class like that, even if it is for a ceremony." She said.
"I like the ceremonies. And who cares about Dr. Rednalliw. That old geezer doesn't even notice that I'm gone. Besides, without me interrupting those ceremonies I think the people watching would fall asleep. I did a good deed today!" Sam said coming into Vivian's room and giving her automat a good kick. The automat was really old and had belonged to Jonathan Lee Walker, her grandfather. Vivian was really proud of her ancient automat.
"Be careful with that!" Vivian cried as Sam proceeded to kick the automat until a butter pie popped out. "And you know that the only reason why Dr. Rednalliw doesn't go to ceremonies is because of you! You annoyed him so much with that last hologram that now we have to go to lessons even during the biggest ceremony of the year!"
"Whatever Viv," Sam said rolling his eyes. He walked out of her room, still munching on the butter pie and slammed the door behind him.
Vivian sighed and flopped onto her bed. She would never finish this assignment on time with all these interruptions.
"Vivian, dinners ready," Her mom called through the door. Vivian groaned and headed downstairs for dinner.
After dinner, Vivian decided to give up on the homework assignment and instead wander around Time City. It had been growing steadily ever since they started to let anyone from history come and live in the city. In fact, it had grown so big that Vivian, who had lived in the city all her life, was still able to get lost in the many streets and alleyways. As she strolled along the crowded streets she thought about the paper. It had said that the history of Time City could very easily repeat itself and undo everything that had happened since the start of the 2nd age. Vivian shuddered, how awful it would be to have to leave Time City and live in history. Vivian hated history because of all the wide open spaces and huge sky. At least in Time City, even though they had to constantly expand its boarders, the sky ended eventually and did not go on forever and ever. Vivian was so lived. Vivian stopped in her tracks. She had never been here before and had no clue how to get home. Sighing Vivian decided she would just have to turn lost in thought that she didn't notice were she was going and soon found herself in the poorer part of Time City; the part where all the people who came from history around and start walking. She would eventually get to a familiar place.
After walking for what felt like a very long time, Vivian gave up and sat down on the sidewalk, leaning against the wall of a small little house. She could hear voices coming through the window.
"I don't care what you think Alannari! We have to go back into history and that's final!" Vivian heard a loud, shrill female voice yelling. The voice had a slight foreign accent, a sign that they had most likely just came from history.
"I hate history! Can't we stay here? If we'd go back I'd have to leave Duration! Do you know how long it took me to get into that school?" Another younger female voice yelled.
"Who cares what school you got into, girl? We could just leave you here. How would you like that?" A loud, booming voice said.
"I would like that very much. It would be better then living with you in history!" the girl retorted.
"Oh no you wouldn't, where would you live? How would you pay for that special school you're in? You couldn't do anything. You're just a silly little girl and you are going into history with us whether you like it or not. Now go to your room!" The man yelled.
"I already pay the fee to go to Duration by myself! You people never do a thing for me!" The girl yelled.
There was silence for a while and then a door slammed. Vivian pulled herself up to the window ledge and peeked through the window, into the little room. She could see two people, one standing near the door and another sitting down on the bed. The woman was very pretty and wore her fair hair up in a bun. The man who stood near the door was very tall with dark black hair. Vivian couldn't help but think that she had seen these people before.
"You there, by the window, what do you think your doing?" The man asked pointing at her. Vivian gasped, loosing her grip on the window ledge and falling to the ground. "Come back here!" Vivian could hear the man yell as she jumped to her feet and ran as fast as she could away from the house. She couldn't explain it but something told her that she should get away from those people as soon as possible. Glancing back she could see the man reaching through the window and shaking his fist at her, still yelling something that Vivian couldn't hear.
Vivian ran as hard and as quick as her legs could carry her, not stopping until she reached the Gnomon Tower. She smiled, finally, a landmark she could recognize. From the Gnomon Tower Vivian managed to find the Annuate Palace, where she lived. Not wanting her parents to find out that she had been gone, Vivian climbed the tree next to her window and tumbled into her bedroom. She pulled back the cover and jumped into her bed, still shaking from fear and excitement.