“Future shock…” She bows her head. “It was horrible, what happened to those other people, but Aether wouldn’t stop the program. From the brief hints we got from the other test subjects, we knew the aperture was working. The accelerator was sending people thirty years in the future and bringing them back. We just needed to find a way to keep them sane. We decreased the time to ten years instead of thirty, but that didn’t remove all of the problems. That’s when Dr. Kapur suggested we use teenagers.” “So you knew when you recruited us that we might go crazy?” Chris asks, leaning forward, fists clenched like he’s about to jump out of his seat and attack her. “Dr. Kapur promised us that none of you would suffer from future shock. He showed us studies of teenage brains…” She sighs and stares a

