WHEN WE REACHED the school parking lot, Tony walked to the curb. Without planes, the generator wasn"t needed. The president handed Fritz a photocopy of a section of Paris, which Fritz gave to Ashley. WHEN WE REACHED“Why me?” “It"s Paris.” While Ashley set up the portal, I warned the president not to go alone. “I"m meeting my informant,” the president said. “Then we"ll see. It"s night there now.” The storm hadn"t produced, so we waited in Ashley"s classroom. The classroom acted as a catalyst for Fritz, and he walked to the front of the room and began a lecture, the story of his first day in the portal. Fritz said that since that day, our lives changed regularly. He didn"t know the technical answers, but could provide live, vivid examples of how he had learned the intricacies of using t

