She walked through an impossible door in an impossible wall and found herself in the history books.
It was the year 2390 CE - then it was 1916.
Dr. Arlene Sandra Pierce PhD, tenured professor of European History at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. She loved her nickname, Snake, that came from her initials, ASP. A neat reference to Cleopatra and her whole death before dishonour thing.
It is always nice when your initials do good.
Arlene's fiancée, Dr. Carla Lillian Anna White PhD, tenured professor of North American History at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. She did not like the nickname suggested by her initials, Claw.
Arlene grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, United States of North America. Carla grew up in Great Shelford, England, a bit more than four kilometres from The University of Cambridge. They often saw the irony in a woman from North America studying European history and a woman from Europe studying North American history. They were however a great help to each other.
One day while taking a constitutional, Arlene came upon an impossible door in an even more impossible wall. The door seemed to call out to her, telling her of great adventure if she would just step through.
Her curiosity eventually overcame her common sense and she stepped through the door.
If the universe needed a person to be in a particular place at a particular time, it might create a wormhole between those two points. What would such a wormhole look like to a human being? Arlene now knows that wormholes can look like an impossible door in an impossible wall.
She stepped through the door and found herself in the middle of a war. Specifically, the Battle of the Somme, the bloodiest and worst battle of World War 1. Even worse, she found herself standing in the middle of No Man's land!
How did she survive?
How did she respond? Why was she there? What information should she provide?
Arlene remembered Serena Beth Thompson, the only other adult to travel in time. She had a purpose, when she completed her work in the early 17th century, she returned. Did Arlene have a purpose? Serena Beth Thompson was a brilliant engineer, a genius even. Arlene was intelligent, but just a historian. All she could provide was information.
