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A
month
of
physiotime
had
passed
since
that
night
in
the
482nd
,
when
he
grew
acquainted
with
many
things
.
Now
,
if
one
calculated
by
ordinary
time
,
he
was
nearly
2000
Centuries
in
Noys
Lambent
’
s
future
,
attempting
by
a
mixture
of
bribery
and
cajolery
to
learn
what
lay
in
store
for
her
in
a
new
Reality
.
It
was
worse
than
unethical
,
but
he
was
past
caring
.
In
the
physiomonth
just
gone
he
had
,
in
his
own
eyes
,
become
a
criminal
.
There
was
no
way
of
glossing
over
that
fact
.
He
would
be
no
more
a
criminal
by
compounding
his
crime
and
he
had
a
great
deal
to
gain
by
doing
so
.
Now
,
as
part
of
his
felonious
maneuvering
(
he
made
no
effort
to
choose
a
milder
phrase
)
he
stood
at
the
barrier
before
the
2456th
.
Entry
into
Time
was
much
more
complicated
than
mere
passage
between
Eternity
and
the
kettle
shafts
.
In
order
to
enter
Time
the
coordinates
fixing
the
desired
region
on
Earth
’
s
surface
had
painstakingly
to
be
adjusted
and
the
desired
moment
of
Time
pin
-
pointed
within
the
Century
.
Yet
despite
inner
tension
Harlan
handled
the
controls
with
the
ease
and
quick
confidence
of
a
man
with
much
experience
and
a
great
talent
.
Harlan
found
himself
in
the
engine
room
he
had
seen
first
on
the
viewing
screen
within
Eternity
.
At
this
physiomoment
Sociologist
Voy
would
be
sitting
safely
before
that
screen
watching
for
the
Technician
’
s
Touch
that
was
to
come
.
Harlan
felt
no
hurry
.
The
room
would
remain
empty
for
the
next
156
minutes
.
To
be
sure
,
the
spatio
-
temporal
chart
allowed
him
only
110
minutes
,
leaving
the
remaining
46
as
the
customary
40
per
cent
"
margin
.
"
Margin
was
there
in
case
of
necessity
,
but
a
Technician
was
not
expected
to
have
to
use
it
.
A
"
margin
-
eater
"
did
not
remain
a
Specialist
long
.
Harlan
,
however
,
expected
to
use
no
more
than
2
minutes
of
the
iio
.
Wearing
his
wrist
-
borne
field
generator
so
that
he
was
surrounded
by
an
aura
of
physiotime
(
an
effluvium
,
so
to
speak
,
of
Eternity
)
and
therefore
protected
from
any
of
the
effects
of
Reality
Change
,
he
took
one
step
toward
the
wall
,
lifted
a
small
container
from
its
position
on
a
shelf
,
and
placed
it
in
a
carefully
adjusted
spot
on
the
shelf
below
.
Having
done
that
,
he
re
-
entered
Eternity
in
a
way
that
seemed
as
prosaic
to
himself
as
passage
through
any
door
might
be
.
Had
there
been
a
Timer
watching
,
it
would
have
seemed
to
him
that
Harlan
had
simply
disappeared
.
The
small
container
stayed
where
he
put
it
.
It
played
no
immediate
role
in
world
history
.
A
man
’
s
hand
,
hours
later
,
reached
for
it
but
did
not
find
it
.
A
search
revealed
it
half
an
hour
later
still
,
but
in
the
interim
a
force
-
field
had
blanked
out
and
a
man
’
s
temper
had
been
lost
.
A
decision
which
would
have
remained
unmade
in
the
previous
Reality
was
now
made
in
anger
.
A
meeting
did
not
take
place
;
a
man
who
would
have
died
lived
a
year
longer
,
under
other
circumstances
;
another
who
would
have
lived
died
somewhat
sooner
.
The
ripples
spread
wider
,
reaching
their
maxium
in
the
2481st
,
which
was
twenty
-
five
Centuries
upwhen
from
the
Touch
.
The
intensity
of
the
Reality
Change
declined
thereafter
.
