The day after Mavis carried us all back to the farm, Dad and I drove back to the cabin to get our stuff. No one had noticed we were gone, of course, because that’s one rule of time travel that is true—time doesn’t flow the same everywhere. In our time, we’d only been gone a few hours. The day after Mavis carried us all back to the farm, Dad and I drove back to the cabin to get our stuff. No one had noticed we were gone, of course, because that’s one rule of time travel that is true—time doesn’t flow the same everywhere. In our time, we’d only been gone a few hours.Dad suggested I take one last dip in the lake. I suspected he wanted a bit of time to himself, and I loved the way swimming made me feel, like all the hard things were carried away. I jumped in, wearing my good shorts even thoug

