Rapunzel felt Dave's hands tighten around her throat, cutting off her air supply. She tried kicking and clawing at him but it was useless. Whatever alien species Dave was, he was super strong.
Eugene went into action and barreled into Dave, trying to get him to let her go, but it didn't help. The alien wasn't letting go. In fact, his hands only tightened even more around her throat.
"Dave, stop!" Eugene said.
"I can't," Dave replied. "I'm not in control of my body."
Eugene turned to the librarian, who was still reading from the book of incomprehensible words. "You're doing this to him." He ran at the librarian and tried taking the book from him but the librarian kicked out with his foot and shoved Eugene back.
Rapunzel could feel her vision turning black. It was only a matter of seconds before Dave crushed her windpipe.
On the verge of almost dying brought her right back to the day she actually did die.
Which was just yesterday.
One moment, Eugene was meeting her for the first time and she knew in her heart that would be the last time she'd ever seen him, then the next moment she was dying in his arms.
And then she was waking up in his arms, alive and well again.
She knew the journey Eugene had gone on – she had seen it herself. But she still didn't fully know his journey. How did he feel when she died? How did he cope? Did he even care? Because when she died, he had just met her for the first time.
She wanted answers to these questions but she was scared to ask because asking them made it all the more real that she had died and was now alive again.
And was now being strangled by an alien mummy.
If Dave didn't kill her, then the librarian would sure try.
Would she forever be on the run for her life all because she defied the odds and survived death? Maybe dying now would be easier. Eugene would be left alone from the Time Traveler's Society. He didn't need her now. He was a changed man – a better man than ever before.
She stopped fighting Dave and let the darkness start to take her.
Eugene saw as Rapunzel stopped fighting and her body went limp.
No. He went through hell to get her back. He wasn't going to lose her right away again.
Eugene grabbed a heavy book off the shelf and slammed it into the head of the librarian. That made the man jerk back and drop the book he was reading from.
It also made Dave let Rapunzel go. Her body slumped to the ground.
The librarian took off running before Eugene could grab the book they needed from him. He could run after him and get the book but that would mean leaving Rapunzel behind and he refused to do that.
Making his easy choice, he ran back to Rapunzel's side. "Hey, hey." He checked her pulse. She was still alive.
He slumped in relief before gently tapping her cheek. "Rapunzel, come on. Wake up."
Dave stood there, looking ashamed of himself. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt her. I didn't want to."
Eugene stood back up and ripped the medallion off Dave's chest. "The librarian was able to use this to control you. Magic of some sort." He tossed it to the ground and then stomped on it, breaking it into hundreds of tiny pieces. "You could have killed her."
"I'm sorry." Dave bowed his head. "I really didn't mean to. I just like to sleep in sarcophaguses. I don't hurt people."
Eugene wanted to strangle Dave himself but it was pointless. The alien hadn't meant anything wrong. It was the librarian time traveler they needed to be worried about. He had been sent here to kill Rapunzel. There was only one way to stop him – by killing him themselves.
He kneeled beside Rapunzel again, pulling her into his arms. "Blondie, come on. Wake up." He tapped her cheek again.
Her eyes fluttered open. "Eugene? I'm alive?"
"You are." He leaned down to kiss her but she flinched back. He paused. "Sorry. Are you all right? Do we need to get you back to your tower so it can heal you?"
"I'll be all right," she rasped out, sitting up. "I really thought I was dying but I'm not."
Eugene frowned. She sounded… disappointed by that. But that was crazy. Who wanted to die? "Rapunzel, are you all right?"
"What do you mean?" she asked, rubbing her throat as she stood back up. "I'm alive. Shouldn't I be happy?"
"You are, right? Happy, that is."
"Of course," she said quickly. Too quickly for Eugene's liking.
He gently guided her away from Dave. "Blondie, you know you can talk to me. I know you're struggling with having just died and being resurrected and now the Society is sending people to kill you, so I understand if you're struggling. You can tell me."
She sighed, looking away from him. "You're not going to like the truth."
"What truth?" His heart felt like it was in a hard knot.
Dave walked even further away from them. At least he had the grace to understand that this was a private conversation.
"For a moment… I wanted to die," she whispered.
Eugene did a double take. "What? That's crazy."
"See? I knew you wouldn't like it hearing that."
"So, then why tell me?"
"Because you deserve to know how I'm feeling," she said, placing her hand on his arm. "I figured everything would be easier if I was just… dead."
"Why would you think that?" he asked. The pain was obvious in his voice. Normally he'd be embarrassed over that but right now, he didn't give a damn. "Life would not be easier without you, Rapunzel. Not at all."
"The reason the Society sent an assassin to kill me is because I'm supposed to be dead. If you hadn't brought me back, then none of this would be happening and you'd be safe. I can't risk you dying because of me."
He scoffed. "You think I care about that? Rapunzel. I brought you back to life because I don't want to be without you. I found a loophole in nature and I took it. I don't care about my own safety and neither should you."
"But I do, Eugene. I love you. Of course I don't want you to die for me."
"And I don't want you to die for me," he growled.
She opened her mouth, then closed it, before she nodded. "So, we're at an impasse then. We're not going to agree on this."
"Just tell me you'll fight to stay alive. I don't want you to go up to that librarian and hand your life over to him. We're on a mission to find your parents and that's what we're going to do. This is not a suicide mission, Blondie. This is a mission for you to get the life back that Gothel stole from you. Don't waste it."
"I'm sorry," she said after a silent moment. "You're right. I just can't help but feel like we did something wrong."
"Hell, if the Society wants to be mad at anyone, then they should be mad at me." He leaned against the bookcase. "I'm the one who brought you back. That was my decision." He paused. "You don't… hate me for making that decision, do you? I never asked if you wanted me to bring you back to life."
Her eyes softened as she laid her hand on his cheek. "I don't hate you, Eugene. I never could hate you." Right as his heart was beginning to feel full again, Rapunzel dropped her hand and stepped away from him. "I do want to find my parents. I do want to spend my life with you."
"Then let's do that. No more giving up. Please fight with me." He wanted nothing more than to take her hand in his but he was trying to go at her pace.
She offered him a half-smile. "I'll fight with you."
"Good. Now, we have a book to go get."
The librarian time traveler wasn't anywhere within the library. Rapunzel knew that because they spent the past hour checking.
She kept throwing little glances at Eugene to see if she could understand what he was thinking. He was so upset with her for almost giving up. She was honestly a little upset with herself over that.
All she wanted was to feel his arms around her again. His lips on hers. His hands on hers. His body on hers.
And that could happen again if she just let it.
But she kept holding back because she didn't know where her mind was at.
They disguised Dave in a large overcoat and hat so he wouldn't draw even more attention to them but once they left the library, he wanted to take it off.
"No," Eugene said. "You have to keep it on. We don't want people to freak out at the sight of a mummy walking around Cairo."
"But it's so hot out here," Dave whined, taking his hat off.
Eugene grabbed it and planted it back on Dave's head before he turned to Rapunzel. "Where are we going to find the librarian? He could be anywhere with that book."
"He's trying to keep it from me which means he doesn't want me seeing what's in it." She winced up at the sun. "But Dave is right. It is really hot out here. We can try finding the librarian later tonight once the sun goes down. Let's head back to my tower. Who knows? The librarian might even be waiting for us there."
Time travelers could track each other's time machines if they knew the code for the machine. Rapunzel didn't doubt that the Society knew the code for her tower.
She was honestly a little surprised they hadn't tried to blow it up yet.
Dave's eyes widened when he saw her tower, which she had parked on the rural outskirts of Cairo so not as many people would see it. "You live in that?"
"I do," she said proudly. Her tower was once a place of pain for her but after joining the Society and getting her own time machine, she decided to model it after her tower to reclaim it. Now, she could use it to help people instead of hurt people the way Gothel did to her.
Dave couldn't stop looking around at everything inside from her bookshelf (which had an original manuscript of Romeo and Juliet from Shakespeare himself that Eugene stole for her) to her desk in the middle of the room, which contained her computer and all the knobs and compartments that helped her time travel.
"I need to get myself one of these," Dave said, still looking around.
"You're not stealing Rapunzel's tower," Eugene said.
Dave glanced away like that was exactly what he was thinking about doing.
Eugene turned to her. "So, now we wait until dark?"
"Now we wait," she said.
They stood before each other, an awkwardness that had never been there before.
Eugene took one step towards her as she took a step back. After a second, she took a step forward and he took a step back.
He chuckled but there wasn't much humor to it. "What are we doing, Blondie? Why is there this tension between us?" He glanced at Dave, who was inspecting the kitchen, before lowering his voice. "I thought things would be great after I brought you back. I thought we'd get our happy ending."
"I'm shocked to hear you say that. I didn't think you believed in fairytales and happy endings."
"I'm a changed man because of you. I just want us to be happy."
"I do too," she said, reaching out for help but dropping her hand at the last moment.
"So, then let's just be happy!" he exclaimed. Dave looked over at them and Eugene lowered his voice again. "Let's just be happy, Rapunzel. No more trying to die. I brought you back to life and we both have to face the consequences of that but we'll face it together. And I'll wait until you're ready to be with me again. But I'm tired of this awkwardness between us. It's driving me crazy, especially since all I want to do is grab you, throw you up against a wall, and kiss the hell out of you."
His words set her body on fire. No one before Eugene had ever done that to her. She wanted him to do exactly what he said he wanted to do and yet, she still held back. Why was this so hard? She knew the answer – no one had ever died and came back to life before. At least no humans anyway. There were alien species that could easily resurrect themselves but they weren't beholden to Time in the way humans were. The fact that she had been dead just yesterday was messing with her head.
She opened her mouth to give him an answer – though she still wasn't sure what she wanted to say – when a loud crash across the room drew her attention to Dave, who was standing before her easel and paint sets, which were now all on the ground, paint splattered everywhere.
Eugene spun around to glare at Dave. "Nice going."
Dave smiled wide. "Thanks. For a second, I thought I had done something wrong."
Rapunzel giggled as Eugene just sighed and shook his head. She was both grateful and annoyed with Dave for interrupting her moment with Eugene. The alien had saved her from having to voice her thoughts, which were still a jumbled mess, but she also wanted to tell Eugene that she felt the same way as him. She just wanted to be with him.
So, why was it so hard to just be with him?
She never really got the chance to be with him before she died. They were always moving in different directions. Her heart pined for the chance to be with him but now that it was here, it was proving harder than she ever thought.
"It's ok, Dave," Rapunzel said, stepping away from Eugene when everything inside of her wanted to stand near him. "Just… don't touch anything else."
He nodded. "Don't touch anything else. Got it." He then proceeded to touch the spines of all of her books. "Ooh. This looks interesting." He picked up the original copy of Romeo and Juliet.
"Don't touch that," both Rapunzel and Eugene said at the same time.
Dave jumped and backed away. "Sorry."
She shared a look with Eugene before heading over to her computer. He walked over to Dave and grabbed the alien by the shoulder and nudged him along so they were all huddled around her desk.
"So, how are we going to find our annoying time traveler librarian?" Eugene asked. "You don't have anything of his to locate him." That was the cool thing about her computer – if she had something that belonged to a person, she could use that to track them.
"I know. But we do know one thing – he works for the Society which means he has to be in their files." She pushed a few buttons on her computer and pulled the list of names and faces who worked for the Time Traveler's Society.
"He's an assassin," Eugene said. "Usually organizations like to keep those things on the down-low."
"True but it's worth a shot."
After looking through file after file, the librarian assassin was nowhere to be seen.
She sighed and slumped against her desk. "Well, it was worth a shot."
Eugene rubbed her arms and she didn't pull away. She loved his touch and only wanted more of it. "It's ok. We tried. We'll find another way to get him and get the book."
"You know, I've seen the librarian before," Dave said. "I've spent a lot of time at the library and museum. Sometimes he'll sneak in food and eat it when no one is looking. I was curious one day to see what he was eating but it was confusing. It was a piece of meat squished between a bun and wrapped in paper. I've never seen anything like that around here before."
"How is that going to help us?" Eugene muttered. "And how much time have you spent inside that damn sarcophagus to notice these things?"
Dave shrugged. "A lot of time."
Rapunzel straightened up. "Did the paper have any writing on it?"
"Um… let me think." He scrunched up his face which was a slightly weird sight since his face was still wrapped in linen. "I think it said… Donald's? Something like that."
"McDonalds?" Eugene asked.
Dave snapped his fingers. "That was it."
"So, I take it our librarian friend doesn't like the food in Cairo 1919." Eugene laughed. "Eating McDonalds. I wonder if he gets a happy meal?"
"This is good," Rapunzel said. "We know he's using his time machine to travel. I can detect if there's been any recent time travel in the area. I won't know his exact time machine code but I can see that. It might take us to him. And if it doesn't, maybe we can find something of his to track him."
"Great." Eugene rubbed his hands together. "Let's go to McDonalds."
After some finagling of her computer, Rapunzel was able to detect when the last time (other than them) had time traveled and it led them straight to McDonalds in the year 1991.
"Why 1991?" Eugene asked as they stepped out of her tower and headed for the McDonalds parking lot. "What was so great about McDonalds in 1991?"
"I've never had fast food before," Rapunzel commented, looking around. They were still in their 1919 getups as they didn't want to lose any precious moments changing. Even if it was causing people to look at them weird as they passed by.
They were in Texas and it was just as freaking hot as Cairo had been.
Eugene did a double take. "You've never had fast food, Blondie? Damn, we're going to have to fix that."
"Why are people looking at me?" Dave asked.
"Uh, because you're dressed up like a mummy," he responded.
"Why should that matter?"
Eugene could only shake his head.
They walked into the fast food place and looked around. As luck would have it, they spotted the librarian standing at the counter, ordering a Big Mac.
"Let's get him," Eugene said, striding forward. People complained as they cut the line but he ignored them. Once he reached the librarian, Eugene tapped him on the shoulder. The librarian turned around, widened his eyes, and fumbled to grab something out of his pocket but Eugene prevented him from grabbing anything by punching him in the face.
People screamed as the librarian fell back and hit the counter.
"Give us the book," Eugene demanded.
"No," he growled, grabbing his baton stick from his jacket. He swung it at Eugene's head but missed as Eugene ducked out of the way.
Rapunzel ran forward and grabbed the baton, stopping it inches from hitting her in the head. She and the librarian grabbled with it as people ran away. The poor employee behind the counter was ducking down, a terrified look in her eyes.
Eugene kicked the librarian in the stomach and sent him sprawling on the ground. Rapunzel was still holding on to the baton.
The librarian scrambled back up and took off running. Rapunzel followed.
Eugene would have too but he noticed that Dave wasn't with them. "Dave?" When he turned around, he saw Dave standing over a table and picking at the food left behind from the screaming patrons of McDonalds. He was about to take a bite of a half-eaten burger when Eugene walked over and slapped him on the back.
Dave jumped and dropped the burger.
"Let's go," Eugene said pointedly. He was getting freaking tired of damn aliens.
The two of them ran after Rapunzel and the librarian, who was sprinting straight to a car. He jumped inside before Rapunzel could reach him and disappeared right before their eyes.
Rapunzel bent forward, taking deep breaths.
Eugene slowed down. "Where did he go?"
"He time traveled," she explained before straightening back up. "But, we have this." She held up his baton. "Something he owns."
A smile slowly spread across Eugene's face. "So, we can track him with it."
Dave frowned. "I don't understand."
"Just get in the tower," Eugene grumbled.
They landed back in Egypt in 1919, since that's where the librarian was. But instead of being within the busy city of Cairo, they were in Giza, standing right smack dab before a large ass pyramid. Eugene had never seen anything like it before in person. The images of the pyramids on TV didn't do it justice.
"That's a big pyramid," he muttered, staring up at it.
"That's because it's the Great Pyramid of Giza," Rapunzel said it like it was obvious.
"Right. That would make sense."
"Just think of all the sarcophaguses inside," Dave exclaimed, clapping his hands. "So many to sleep in."
Neither Rapunzel nor Eugene dared to comment as Dave would probably take what they said and twist it in the worst way possible. Eugene didn't want to accidently give him more ideas of desecrating graves.
They walked to the pyramid. There was no one else around as it was scorching outside. The people of Giza and Cairo had the good sense to stay inside today.
Rapunzel walked confidently inside the pyramid and Eugene followed, feeling instant relief from the hot sun. It was surprisingly cool inside.
She gave him a knowing look. "The walls keep it from getting too hot in here. Now, come on. We need to find the librarian."
They headed down long corridors with hieroglyphs on the walls. It was sort of eerie with no other sounds than the sound of them walking. Eugene was prepared for the librarian to jump out at any second and attack them.
Rapunzel had the librarian's baton in her hands.
"You look like you're ready to hit someone with that thing," Eugene said, trying for charm.
It worked. She smiled. "Be careful or I might have to use it on you."
"Now you should be careful, Blondie. You don't know what kind of dirty talk like that does to a man like me."
She chuckled and shook her head before giving him a wink.
It might him feel good, like they were starting to get back on the right track. Granted, they had never really been on the right track since Time was keeping them apart but now they had a chance to get it right.
They walked through endless corridors within the pyramid. Eugene began to wonder if they'd ever find the librarian. Rapunzel needed that book to find any information on her parents and damn it, he was going to get it for her.
Just when Eugene was about to give up, they rounded another corner and entered a room filled with gold.
He stopped short. "What the… Wouldn't all of this gold been excavated by now?"
"You would think," Rapunzel said, poking a large gold plate.
Dave ran over to a pile and began stuffing gold trinkets into his pockets.
"So, what is it doing here?" Eugene asked.
"I've been collecting it," a voice behind them said.
They whirled around and saw the librarian standing in the archway. He was holding onto a book but it wasn't the book they needed. It was the book he had used to mind control Dave back at the museum.
"I've placed a barrier spell over it," he explained, "so only people who have time traveled before can see it. Well, and non-humans too." He sneered at Dave. "My magic doesn't work on aliens."
Dave didn't even look bothered by it. He just kept stuffing more gold into his pockets.
"So, you found me," the librarian said, his eyes flicking to the baton in Rapunzel's hand. "I was wondering when you would. You've made my life easier, I'll say that. Now I can kill you finally." He opened up the book and began to read it from it, chanting words that Eugene had no clue what they were.
Dave jerked up and his eyes glazed over.
Damn it. The librarian was trying to mind control Dave again. But how? Eugene's eyes flicked to the gold sticking out of Dave's pockets. That was the answer right there.
Eugene sighed. "You know, I've had enough of this." He started to run for the librarian when Dave ran into him, pushing him to the ground.
Rapunzel came over to help but the librarian grabbed a gun from his pocket and held it up, pointing it right at her. She froze.
Eugene didn't though.
There was no way he was going to lose Rapunzel to another gunshot. That's how she died in the first place.
With a scream, he pushed Dave off him and threw himself against Rapunzel, pushing her to the ground right as the librarian pulled the trigger. The bullet missed them both but not by much.
Rapunzel looked dazed as she stared up at him. He could only wonder what was going through her head but if it was anything like his, then it was memories of that day at Versailles.
"I got this," he told her before getting up. As the librarian fumbled to get another bullet into his gun, Eugene slammed into him and grabbed the gun away, making the librarian fall onto his ass.
He pointed the gun at the librarian. "Any last words?" He knew this bastard needed to die. If he was truly the Society's assassin, he would never stop coming after them.
"Yes." The librarian smiled. "Get him."
Eugene frowned right before Dave barreled into him, knocking the gun out of his hands.
The librarian was getting back up but as he did, another book fell out of his jacket.
It was the book.
The one that might have answers about Rapunzel's parents
Eugene lunged for it, managed to grab it, and on instinct, took off running. "I got it!" he shouted to Rapunzel.
"Go," she said, motioning for him to keep moving. "Don't let him get it."
"Follow him," the librarian commanded of Dave and Dave did.
"Shit," Eugene muttered as Dave began to chase him. He wasn't sure how he was going to get out of this situation. But as he ran deeper into the depths of the pyramid, he just hoped that Rapunzel would be able to stop the librarian and get back to him.
Rapunzel stood before the librarian. The gun was lying halfway between them both. Whoever reached it first would be the one to survive.
Normally, Rapunzel hated killing people. She was taught to help, not hurt.
But in a situation like this, she would do whatever she had to.
When she was staring down the barrel of the gun, all she could think about was the day she died in the Palace of Versailles. The way that automaton had shot her.
She knew it wasn't the most pleasant way to die. It was nothing but a searing, intense pain.
In that moment, when she thought she'd die again from another gunshot wound, she realized… she didn't want to die. Especially not like that.
So, Rapunzel would do whatever she had to because she knew for sure that she wasn't going to die again. Not anytime soon, anyway.
"You know I need to do this," the librarian said. "You betrayed the rules of Time. You died and came back. That's not allowed."
She could try explaining to him that it was through alien magic but she doubted he'd care. So, all she said was, "I don't care."
He shrugged. "Then it's fine by me. I'll kill you now." He dived for the gun right as she did.
They both reached it at the same time but Rapunzel had an ace up her sleeve. She still had his baton in her hands. She used it to hit him in the head.
He groaned and flopped onto his back.
Grabbing the gun, she stood back up and pointed it at him and…
…wavered. How could she kill another human? She had never done that before. And he worked for the Time Traveler's Society, same as her. In another life, they could have been friends.
But she wasn't going back into the ground again.
Squeezing her eyes shut, she pulled the trigger. The sound echoed off the walls. When she opened her eyes again, the librarian was dead from a bullet to the head.
Rapunzel quickly looked away. What was she becoming? Killing people now? That wasn't her. Sure, it was self-defense but it still didn't feel right.
And it was right then that she felt the earth beneath her start to shake.
Frowning, she looked around the room. Everything began to rumble and quake.
Then the stone columns attached to the floor and ceiling began falling over. She gasped as she ran out of the way before she was squished to death.
What was happening? The pyramid of Giza was one of the strongest pyramids around. What could be causing it to collapse? She wasn't sure but she needed to find Eugene and Dave and get out of here before things got even worse.
With a deep breath, she ran in the direction Eugene went.
Every time the floor shook, she stumbled, slamming hard into a wall. Every time stone fell off the walls, she'd scream and jump back to avoid getting hit.
But she didn't stop.
Eventually, she ran into a grand room with a sarcophagus in the middle. Eugene was there, still getting chased by Dave.
Somehow, he was still under the spell the librarian had placed on him.
"Rapunzel, thank god," Eugene called out when he saw her.
Her heart fluttered at his words. He was happy she was safe and that meant everything to her.
"But, uh, Blondie, if you're just gonna stand there, then you should know I could really use your help."
"Sorry," she said, snapping out of her thoughts. "Coming!"
She was sprinting right for Dave when the pyramid shook violently, sending her sprawling to the floor.
When she looked up, she saw that both Eugene and Dave had fallen over too. Using that advantage, she got back up and ran to Dave. He was dusting himself off right as she grabbed the gold from his pockets.
The moment the gold left his possession, Dave returned to his normal self.
He looked back and forth between her and Eugene (who had stood up and was breathing heavy) and frowned. "It happened it again, didn't it?"
"It did," she said softly, helping him stand back up. She turned to Eugene. He was all right. She was all right.
After a moment, she ran into his arms. He hugged her tightly.
And then the pyramid shook again, reminding her that they needed to get out of there.
But when she turned to leave, Rapunzel saw a crack opening up on the wall before her. It was a bright, golden light. It kept expanding and expanding until it finally stopped.
The pyramid stopped shaking at the exact same time.
The symbol before her was something she couldn't make heads or tails of. She had never seen it before.
It was a circle filled with strands of golden light touching the inner edges. It almost looked like a sun but she wasn't sure.
What did it mean and why did it show up?
"Rapunzel," Eugene said, "we should go in case the pyramid decides it wants to kill us again."
"All right," she said in a distracted voice. For some reason, the symbol was calling to her.
Eugene waved the book in front of her face, snapping her out of it. "We have the book. Let's go."
She nodded and followed him and Dave back out of the pyramid. It was strange going from the dark expanse of the pyramid to the bright sun of the day.
They hurried back to her tower and went inside.
"Here you go," Eugene said, handing her the book. "Hopefully you'll find information about your parents in there."
"I don't even know what they look like." She held the book gently between her hands. "I only know their names. Arianna and Frederic."
"Take your time." He rubbed her arm.
"I'm just gonna be over here," Dave called out, walking up the stairs to her room. She didn't care. She only had eyes for the book in her hands.
It was time to get some answers.
Opening it, she could tell it was full of information about the Society but she didn't focus on that now. Right now, she wanted to find her parents.
She went to the index and found their names.
It was the first real tangible thing she had ever found when it came to her parents.
Flipping to the first page their names were listed on, she saw that the page was talking about the founders of the Society.
She had been taught in the Academy that no one knew the founders. That they were a mystery that no one had ever figured out.
But that was clearly a lie because the page before her said that the Society knew who the founders were and that their names were…
Arianna and Frederic Corona.
Just below their names was a picture of a couple. A woman with brown hair and a man with a bushy beard. It was their eyes though that drew Rapunzel to that picture.
She had the same eyes as Arianna.
As her mother.
She gasped when she realized what she was reading.
Her parents had founded the Time Traveler's Society.
Until Sunday!