CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Guardians of Time

Lily and her companions arrive at the Temporal Preservation Agency’s headquarters, a large building with shiny hallways that are quite active due to the new recruits they have joined. It has been six months since they agreed to join the service, and every day was filled with new experiences and concerns. Lily was completely at home in her new position and seemed to be happy playing the role of the historian, especially as she saw discrepancies in the time line. The same went for Alexander, who, due to his strategic prowess, was mostly involved in temporal disturbance missions as a field agent. Emily truly came into her own in the research department, as she busied herself with the creation of technologies that were useful in identifying and avoiding future chronal instabilities. Jonathan, who had a background in the sciences, moved back and forth between the lab and the outdoors and validated his research in practice. Sitting absorbed in a complex temporal reading on one of t