Year: 1014
Place: Outside a hut on the coast of Tiran Island, Egypt
Dialogue: Dani and Aurora
Time: The events are occurring after a time jump from 1414 to 1014
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Dani: "It looks like we're outside the same hut on the same shore. Is this right, Aurora?"
Aurora: "Dani, it should be the same and this should be exactly 400 years earlier. The year 1014."
Dani: "Before you enter the hut like the last jump, let me know how you knew it was 1014."
Aurora: "1414 minus 400 equals 1014. It all deals with square numbers. Twenty squared is 400 -"
Dani: "- alright, now I'm not able to see where you are going anymore."
Aurora: "Let me start on the other end of the ledger-type thing then. How about 1971?"
Dani: "Yes, there I met Ursula K. Le Guin. She was such a pleasant person to talk with."
Aurora: "To go from 1971 to the next stop in 1955 was a difference of 16 years, or four squared."
Dani: "Yes, the person in 1955 demanded a thousand dollars from me. Next was 1951."
Aurora: "You would not believe what I had to do in 1955. In 1951, Bradbury is accommodating."
Dani: "Ray Bradbury was for me too. So, there is a four-year difference from 1955 to 1951."
Aurora: "Four years is the number two squared - then the sequence started two squared again."
Dani: "So, 1951 minus four is 1947? When you're supposed to visit Orwell in Scotland."
Aurora: "Then a sixteen-year difference again to 1931 to visit Mr. Huxley, as we did together."
Dani: "Let me see if I can do this. Then 36 years into the past to see H.G. Wells in 1895?"
Aurora: "After six squared - 36 - followed by minus nine squared - 81 - where I saw Mary in 1814."
Dani: "Which takes us to twelve squared, 144 years earlier, to John Milton's place in 1670."
Aurora: "To 16 squared which brought us here to Egypt in 1414, then four hundred years earlier."
Dani: "With each jump Toru's writings said that we had a day to four years to get a sample."
Aurora: "Precisely. For Ursula K. Le Guin, there was only a one-day window of time to succeed."
Dani: "According to Toru's note, once a book is published it seals the fate of another Earth."
Aurora: "That is what he wrote in the laptop he provided you. Anything else you want to cover?"
Dani: "To double-check, rowing to the prime numbers determined where in time you go."
Aurora: "For location, you also repeated the sequence based upon the prime numbers: 2, 3, 5..."
Dani: "Two reps for Tokyo, three for London, five for NYC, and now seven for Egypt."
Aurora: "Never thought I would say this, but I am tired of math. Let us visit this 14-year old girl."235Please respect copyright.PENANAtoCecoZMIN