Chapter 2
"Hello? Can you hear me? Is there anyone out there?"
"Go away mother, I want to want to wake up yet, it's only seven o'clock," stirring Taya replied, rolling over on the grass.
"Hello? I'm not your mother, my name is Jean," Taya sat bolt upright and gradually, regained her bearings.
"Gosh it's nearly time for supper, mother will go mad! I must've been asleep for some time."
"Can you hear me?" That voice, a new one, just like an angel's sounded in her head, one she could understand! Taken aback, she fell on to the grass.
"Yes, I can, my name in Taya, where are you speaking from?"
"Hello Taya, I'm speaking into your mind via a machine called cerebro, tell me, have you heard voices like mine before?"
"None that I could understand, what's a cerebro?" she replied aloud, luckily not a person was around to hear talking to what appeared to be herself.
"It's a machine that can be used to speak to people like us, like you. Where are you?"
"By a stream, in Hertfordshire, England and you?"
"New York, America."
"Oh, I heard of that, and also the stories of Captain Cook and when he discovered it, a brilliant story at that."
"Taya, on my reading, you have no distinct outline, do you live near some sort of electrical plant or generator or something, which may be causing a disturbance in the systems?"
"A what? I beg if your pardon Miss Jean but I no not of which you are speaking, could you try to explain such words for I am a mere working class girl with only my acting skills to get me through life, not with any knowledge you have, I'm sure."
"Oh, I see, well..... Taya, this may seem a strange question but what year is it where you are?"
"that is a rather bizarre question!" she replied, giggling, "for it is 1674, a joyous march afternoon to be precise, though of the exact date I am unsure, I think it may be Tuesday." Taya waited a good few minutes for a reply from her new friend Miss Jean, but none came, so thinking she had dreamt the whole thing, she finally walked home to her waiting mother.
"Jean! Jean! Come on, wake up! She's coming round! Honey, are you there?" as she started to regain her sight, Jean saw the blurred but welcoming figure of Scott Summers, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"What happened? How long have I been down here?" she sat up to a warm hug from her love.
"About fifteen minutes, I think, Hank was on his way to giving you a hand with checking out the motherboard and found you here. You must've fainted or something, what were you doing?" Suddenly it all came back to her, checking the motherboard, putting on the headset...
"Taya...I must find the professor!" with that she scrambled form Scott's arms and ran to the professor's office with Scott, not far behind. Reaching the door, she grabbed it and just as I opened, she fell through, the room around her blacking out instantaneously.