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ever seen him. "I think it is entirely possible."

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It was two weeks later when they made their move. Elko was
walking down the ramp from the fifth level commons to the Temporal
Studies Complex, as planned, when he ran into Professor Raymond
Burns. "Hello Elko. Looking for me?"
Elko fidgeted. "Not really."
"Where are you going, then?"
"I was going to go take a look at the time devices. To
observe."
"You don't have access, Elko."
"Oh." Actually Elko did have access, as Franz had raised
Elko's access level in the computer system. He couldn't tell that
to Raymond, though.
Raymond looked at his watch. "Actually, my schedule's free
for the next hour. Come with me, I'll give you a personal tour."
Unable to think of a reasonable reason not to accept, Elko
went along with him. The guard door took Raymond's full hand
print, voice print, and retinal scan before letting them inside.
Beyond was a curved hallway which encircled the high-energy fusion
plant, and which led to each of the three surrounding temporal
study labs. While Raymond paused and was explaining something
about the power plant, Elko caught a glimpse of Franz in the
corridor ahead. He'd seen Raymond and ducked back around the
curve, out of sight. After a few moments both Franz and John came
into sight, walking quickly around the curve toward them. They had
Raymond surrounded before he recognized either of them.
"My goodness, what are you two doing here?" Raymond asked.
John grabbed the back of Raymond's suit collar and pressed a
ball-point pen against Raymond's head. "You feel that?" John said.
"That's a cerebral disrupter set at full. Don't force me to
scramble your cortex."
"What is this?" Raymond said, his voice rising in
astonishment. "What do you think you're doing?!"
"Keep silent and do as we tell you."
"What are you doing?" Elko exclaimed.
"We only have five minutes to get out of here," Franz told
him. "We have no other choice but to take him with us."
"Take me?" Raymond said. "Take me where?" Already they were
dragging him down the hall to the door of the closest temporal
study lab.
Elko watched in confusion and horror. "We can't take him with
us!"
"If we let him go, we won't get out of here," Franz said.
"The options are that we give up, or we let him go and get caught,
or we take him with us, or we kill him."
"Kill me!? Don't do that!"
"Only if you force us to," John said, winking at Franz. He