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well.”
This time Tim spoke up first. “But if you had to pick
just a few people to influence and change the course of history, wouldn’t you
have to pick some pretty influential people? It was one thing when we had
to go back in time and convince some alley-thugs and a couple suffragettes that
we were from 1916, and even then we didn’t fool the Emperors once they knew to
be looking for us. How are we going to go back there and talk to the
movers and shakers in 1854?”
“Yes, well, you have identified the trickiest portion of our
plan. You will need to employ an element of disguise. The most
influential people of 1854 will talk to you and, hopefully, accept you because
you will have the advantage of looking like individuals who they already know.”
Chapter 7
Deep
Cover
“I went through a phase a couple years ago where I watched a
lot of TV crime shows,” Rose said, as she sprawled out on a patch of grass four
days later. “When one of the detectives did something really crazy- I dunno,
becoming a mule for a drug ring- they called what he was doing going under
‘deep cover’. I think we’ve got him beat.”
“For sure,” Julie agreed, looking at the sky.
Tim looked up, too. The sky looked pretty
convincing. You’d almost have thought you were really outside. In
actuality, they were still on the inside of the underground hideout where
Hopkins’ great uncle Paul lived, only now they were in what the locals
apparently referred to as the Exercise Room.
As they were building the place, the members of the
resistance knew that they would be down in the bunker for months, maybe
years. And being cooped up underground that long was definitely going to
have psychological downsides that might end up doing more damage to the members
of the resistance than the one world government ever would. So instead of
requiring the residents to pace back and forth in their apartment rooms for
exercise, the architects, who from what Tim gathered were in no way hurting for
financial or technological resources, decided to build a small artificial world
inside their underground fortress.
The Exercise Room spanned half a mile in diameter. The
ceiling was a dome reaching a hundred feet high, programmed to be a sunny blue
with white clouds during the day. Starry skies with a moon that reflected
the natural lunar phases filled the night. A lake, about a hundred yards
across, took up a small portion of the enclosure. It was hot inside,
since the engineers were simulating summer today, so there were several people
swimming and splashing around. Others walked or ran about. Some
played with the dogs who called this little chunk of indoor grass home.
Members of the resistance of all ages came in and out of the Exercise Room
periodically throughout the day, from the school-aged children of resistance
members who took their recess here to the older residents who came around to
get a break from their work.
No one was surprised to see the four teens from the 21st
century there that day either. The teens were frequent visitors to the
Exercise Room in the past three days. It had become their favorite spot
to go and get out of the apartment ever since they had been taken there on
their second day here to learn how to ride horses.
Most of the historical figures who they would be
impersonating knew how to ride horses, after all, and besides, it was one of
the fastest ways to get around in the era they would be visiting. So it
made sense to Tim that Hopkins wanted them to learn how to ride, but he was
surprised that there were horses for them to train with. Apparently a
couple of the higher ranking members of the resistance had owned horses that
they just couldn’t bear to leave aboveground. Usually, they were kept in
a pasture and stables in a different part of the compound, but for the last few
days, they had made an appearance with their teenage riders in the Exercise
Room, as their
This time Tim spoke up first. “But if you had to pick
just a few people to influence and change the course of history, wouldn’t you
have to pick some pretty influential people? It was one thing when we had
to go back in time and convince some alley-thugs and a couple suffragettes that
we were from 1916, and even then we didn’t fool the Emperors once they knew to
be looking for us. How are we going to go back there and talk to the
movers and shakers in 1854?”
“Yes, well, you have identified the trickiest portion of our
plan. You will need to employ an element of disguise. The most
influential people of 1854 will talk to you and, hopefully, accept you because
you will have the advantage of looking like individuals who they already know.”
Chapter 7
Deep
Cover
“I went through a phase a couple years ago where I watched a
lot of TV crime shows,” Rose said, as she sprawled out on a patch of grass four
days later. “When one of the detectives did something really crazy- I dunno,
becoming a mule for a drug ring- they called what he was doing going under
‘deep cover’. I think we’ve got him beat.”
“For sure,” Julie agreed, looking at the sky.
Tim looked up, too. The sky looked pretty
convincing. You’d almost have thought you were really outside. In
actuality, they were still on the inside of the underground hideout where
Hopkins’ great uncle Paul lived, only now they were in what the locals
apparently referred to as the Exercise Room.
As they were building the place, the members of the
resistance knew that they would be down in the bunker for months, maybe
years. And being cooped up underground that long was definitely going to
have psychological downsides that might end up doing more damage to the members
of the resistance than the one world government ever would. So instead of
requiring the residents to pace back and forth in their apartment rooms for
exercise, the architects, who from what Tim gathered were in no way hurting for
financial or technological resources, decided to build a small artificial world
inside their underground fortress.
The Exercise Room spanned half a mile in diameter. The
ceiling was a dome reaching a hundred feet high, programmed to be a sunny blue
with white clouds during the day. Starry skies with a moon that reflected
the natural lunar phases filled the night. A lake, about a hundred yards
across, took up a small portion of the enclosure. It was hot inside,
since the engineers were simulating summer today, so there were several people
swimming and splashing around. Others walked or ran about. Some
played with the dogs who called this little chunk of indoor grass home.
Members of the resistance of all ages came in and out of the Exercise Room
periodically throughout the day, from the school-aged children of resistance
members who took their recess here to the older residents who came around to
get a break from their work.
No one was surprised to see the four teens from the 21st
century there that day either. The teens were frequent visitors to the
Exercise Room in the past three days. It had become their favorite spot
to go and get out of the apartment ever since they had been taken there on
their second day here to learn how to ride horses.
Most of the historical figures who they would be
impersonating knew how to ride horses, after all, and besides, it was one of
the fastest ways to get around in the era they would be visiting. So it
made sense to Tim that Hopkins wanted them to learn how to ride, but he was
surprised that there were horses for them to train with. Apparently a
couple of the higher ranking members of the resistance had owned horses that
they just couldn’t bear to leave aboveground. Usually, they were kept in
a pasture and stables in a different part of the compound, but for the last few
days, they had made an appearance with their teenage riders in the Exercise
Room, as their
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