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Different times and worlds...
The time carrier could give Arsen all the information a distant future race had stored in it about Earth down through the centuries. It had already told him he was now in North America, but when he was, he had not yet discovered. He began his exploration, hoping that he and his small band had not been set down in a time before humans roamed the land.
He activated the vision screens, fingered the magnification into focus, and observed two huge, shaggy-haired things that looked like nothing so much as elephants with impossibly long, very cursive trunks. Mammoths? In North America?
Just as he was beginning to think worst fears were true, Arsen saw black smoke rising high enough for wind currents to disperse it. He swept closer, lower. He had found other humans at last, but he had also found a vision of pure horror!
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