Now, as their relationship develops, Blair must ask himself: How much is he willing to risk for love? Mira was sent from the future to kill Blair, but he’s protected by an invincible suit of power armor. That was going to make it very hard, she thought, to kill him. “This is a lot to take in.”Īfter a moment, he added, “I should probably be getting back.”Īs they retraced their route, she thought: He never takes off the armor. “I … I’ll have to think about it,” she said. “So, do you still want to grab dinner sometime? I’ll understand if you say no.” She glanced around at the trees, the shadows. Because if I did, the agent sent to punish me would surely strike.”
So I could escape, but at a cost - I must never take off the armor, not for an instant. “Wearing this, I’d be impervious to anything. This armor.” He raised his gauntleted hands.
“In the same lab was something else we’d been working on. “I don’t mean to scare you, Mira, but where I come from there are … secret police. The problem was, even if I succeeded in traveling into the past, my voyage would create a temporal wake large enough for them to send someone after me.” “Once I’d had the thought, I knew it was only a matter of time before I’d be picked up for ‘neural re-education.’ So I had to act fast. He stopped and stared out over the water. Then one day the thought popped into my head: I could escape.” Completely useless, as far as our leaders were concerned, but interesting. We’d developed a high-energy device that possessed some unusual properties - like, it could project a man-sized object into the past, creating a branching timeline.
I’d been identified early as a promising scientist, and had risen through the ranks to head of my research division. “I had never been disloyal,” he said softly. “It’s because in the future, where I come from, there are no civil liberties. “Because you care about civil liberties?” “You know I’m starting this new foundation. – Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams, Baen Books, March 2012
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