Time trap

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“You’re late,” said the traitor.

“What is the code phrase?”

“We won’t have enough time to accomplish everything.”

“What is the code phrase?”

Feeling slightly ridiculous, the traitor sucked in a breath and replied, “Freedom or death.”

The shadow vaguely outlined in the darkness gave the countersign: “Unless we are willing to squander lives, there can be no freedom.”

The traitor frowned. The propaganda these anarchists spouted made him uneasy. But they had offered him more money than he could refuse. His debts, his needs, made him vulnerable.

“Very well,” he whispered. He took off his identity badge and inserted it into the first set of security doors locking the Time Institute. As he led the shadow down a silent corridor, his own heartbeat thumping in his ears, he told himself that had the Institute remained strictly concerned with historical research according to its original specifications, he would never have betrayed it. But when the Institute used its resources to influence modern politics, to dare impose past structures upon today’s society, to mold the way people thought… that was wrong.

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