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"Let’s go," Dune said, and we followed hih, and so was getting into the records room, thanks to the key I’d lifted froe space, it was a former classroom, a little on the small side There were at least twenty boxes that held files, along with a model of the planetary system, Pluto included, a couple of defunctbone The skeleton hung fro stand by a silver hook in its head

The roohts and draw unnecessary attention

"Nate, keep a lookout, would you?" I took a box off the top of a stack and handed it to Dune, and then I picked up the one below it

"Why would you h those boxes at ten times the speed you two can?" Nate asked

"Excellent point" I shoved the box in round with a solid thud and a cloud of dust as it slipped right through his fingers

"Nate, what are you--"

"Holy hell" Nate’s voice hit a really high pitch He was pointing out the

A hundred or so young owns sat in thechairs set up in rows, all staring intently at the stage and podiuround two reen suuished-looking gentleown

The banner behind hiratulations, class of 1948

"Please tell me you see that," Nate said "Do you see that?"

"I do," Dune said, setting down the box in his hands "There are no women Where are the women?"

I paid a little more attention to the scenery The stone on the side of the buildings lacked a significant a, and the art building was coe until the 1950s"

"So this is a ripple," Nate said "From before then"

I heard a crash and a yelp behind us

Nate and I turned to find Dune on the ground, tangled up with the teaching skeleton

"I realize this is probably plastic and used for teaching purposes," Dune said, handing Nate a tibia with the foot attached, "but I want it off me"

Nate proceeded to use the le

I interrupted "Guys Look around"

Either

The storage space was now a classroom Neat desks lined up in rows, and a blackboard full of equations The only similarity between this rooo was the skeleton Dune was still tangled up in it

"Where are we?" Nate touched a couple of the desks with his free hand "Is this a rip? Because I’ bone in ht?"

"Shut up," I hissed "So"

The door to the classroo aon the leg bone

"I’ with the bone "It was an accident We … we’re visitors fro to end well

The woman didn’t seem to hear or see hi bone From the way she dropped the mop and covered herin midair I rushed across the room and tapped her on the shoulder before she could run

The dusty file boxes reappeared, and I heard a coht and hanging frohtly o in the rip fro bone