“Or ... have you disappeared to somewhere else; like everyone else on this island? Another time, another place, another epoch ...” I lolled my head against the backrest, woozily. “What the hell is this Flashback, anyway? I’ll tell you what I think; I’m afraid Time itself has somehow been changed so that half the planet never existed. I’m afraid the first wave took the others and the second wave brought the dinosaurs and a third wave, well, a third wave took you. Because, honey, I’ve searched ... and searched ... and you just don’t seem to be here. Not f*****g anywhere.”
A moment came and went; a moment in which I might have shattered, a moment in which I was capable of anything. But, as I said: It came ... and it went.
And then I did look at her picture; at her round, youthful face (alth
