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I kicked in the door to the hovel. The woman had barely time to scream before I had her in my grasp.

“You stand accused of witchcraft,” Father Seamus said. “You were witnessed giving Emma the Evil Eye. Now she miscarried.”

“I’m just a simple midwife, Father. Were I a witch, you wouldn’t stand a chance against me, would you?”

“Good point. Release her,” Father commanded.

I obeyed, but felt unsure why. A question escaped my lips: “Father, why do we believe her?”

She glanced at me with her swirling green eyes.

We left her to pack her things in peace.

Kaya’s ship entered its final orbit around Tau Ceti. At long last she could activate the portal, ending twenty years of solitude.

With a crackle, a doorway opened to the distant Earth. In came a man in a suit, wearing a smile. “Well done. You’ve opened up a whole new frontier for humanity. I can now remove the loneliness adaptations and restore your original personality, as agreed,” he said.

Kaya sighed. The woman who had joined up seemed distant and alien. The change might as well be death. “I’d rather go on another mission.”

The man nodded. All according to plan.

Agent Johnson peered at the schoolyard through his scope. The year was 1898, and Adolf nine years old. Paradox researchers said it was the best time.

He spotted the face familiar from his briefing and removed the safety. His finger trembled on the trigger. Killing a child was difficult, no matter that the moustache and the hair were unmistakable.

Wait a minute. How would any kid have a toothbrush moustache? Johnson hesitated. If he might be delusional, maybe he should abort the mission.

The safety clicked back on. Back in the present, Dennis from next door lived to see another day.