He was completely unprepared for what happened next. Images flashed through his head: random people, places, snippets of interactions. He was at ground level, with people and buildings whisking by him. He could hear words and phrases as they passed. Nothing seemed related to anything else until Danny noticed a pattern: they were all taking place in earlier time periods. The flurry of modern buildings and cars gave way to early scenes of horses and buggies, with people dressed to match the era. It was as if time itself was rewinding.
The images then sped up, revealing scenes from colonial America, with settlers boarding ships. Then crowded streets in old European cities gave way to vineyards in what looked like the Italian countryside. Next, the terrain shifted to the Mediterranean as the
