The marketplace was crowded. There were easily a hundred vendors crammed into small kiosks all around the area. The large mountain cast a shadow covering the land. It was strange to know that in a day, every person there would die.
"God, this is impossible! How am I going to find a Time Agent throughout this mess of people?" I asked myself angrily. I checked my watch.
"Though, I thought, I'm guessing that the person with the blue box isn't from this time period. A simple scan would find him. Scan for alien tech..." I pressed three buttons on the watch and it beeped twice. It was directing me to head northwest, which happened to be closer to the volcano.
Walking through the crowd of people, several people stared at me. I guess I wasn't dressed in a toga, but what could I do? A trenchcoat should work for any time period! I walked for an hour before I decided to take a break and sit down, and re-scan for the Time Agent. A pretty girl with bright green eyes and fair hair walked up to me. I tried to divert my attention to something unimportant, but she was pretty. I couldn't talk to her though, I knew. I had never learned Latin. Where I came from, it was the 51st century, and already at the 21st, Latin was a dead language.
"Hello." The pretty girl said to me. "I'm Helena. You don't seem to be from around these parts."
This was impossible! She was speaking English, which was a language that wouldn't develop for several centuries more. "I'm Jack." Wait, no, this was the ancient Roman Empire. Jack wasn't a name that had been invented yet, either. "Jackus." I corrected. God, I was pathetic. "And I'm not from around here, either. I just came down from... Rome."
"Pleased to meet you, Jackus."
"The pleasure is all mine!" I told her, smiling.
She laughed and continued the conversation, "Rome, then. It's a beautiful city. The height of the empire. Is that a new style you're wearing?" She asked, curious.
"Um... yes, it is." I hoped that was believable. She sat down next to me.
"What's Rome like now?"
"Um... it's big. And there are pillars." I nodded as if to try and convince her that I was sane. I knew that time was of the essence and that I really needed to find the Time Agent.
"You seem like a very nice girl," I told her, looking her up and down, "And I think we should meet up sometime... But right now I need to find a friend. I'll see you later." I stood up and nodded.
"A friend, you say?" she asked, "I saw a man that must have come from Rome too, he was dressed in strange clothing, just like you. He went over there," she pointed in a northwest direction, "He went to see a soothsayer. There was a red-haired girl with him. Is that them."
I processed this information. If this was true, then I had just found my Time Agent. "Yes, it is, thank you," I told Helena, "I'll see you later."
I jumped to my feet, leaving a started Helena sitting on the rock alone, as I sprinted northwest. She stared at me confused, and then smiled, walking away.
I pressed my watch again. The sensor scanned again for alien tech. I located a sonic device, and tracked down the man and his redhead.