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places, where fossilized remains of ancient creatures abound. I suppose the fossils somehow transcended natural barriers, tied our eras, yours and mine together, for I fell unconscious, and when I awoke, you were there, and I was in your time."
She paused, as though waiting for his reaction. Her eyes seemed bright and hopeful, and her lips trembled ever so slightly.
He muttered something noncommittal, and her expression melted into a mask of sorrow. "Well, that is who I am," she finished sadly. "It does not explain why I am here, for that I do not know yet, although I am certain it has to do with my special powers, for" She drew in her breath. Her hands flew to her mouth, as though to grab back the words that had just spilled out.
"Your special powers?"
Her lips twitched as if trying to smile, to belittle what she was about to say, and again she looked away. "I sometimes see visions, and they tell me of accidents about to befall people."
He thought again of the elevator incident earlier that day. Whether planned or not, she had saved his life. And then there had been the flood she had "heard" in advance in the desert. She'd saved them both thereand that could not have been schemed in advance.
But if this part of her story was true, would she expect him to believe the rest? No matter how much she'd enthralled him, how could any rational man do that?

 
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