It took me a while to make sense of what they were saying. I couldn’t even wield a remote control effectively, much less a map. What was I supposed to do with a map? How was what I did with that map supposed to save a town? Why in the world would anyone pick me to be responsible for a whole town? There had been some kind of mistake.
But as I sipped my hot cocoa and let Shelby’s words sink in, I knew there was no mistake here. This was the way of things. The people least prepared were often the ones asked to do the hardest things; that’s what the pastor always said about Moses. And just look at what had happened the last time Jed and I had slid through time, and it had all worked out.
So here we were, sitting around a table and planning another adventure, this time one in which I would b
