76 Marysville, Washington March 31st 2035 The next day, Moore was back at his grandfather’s farmstead. After receiving notification he had been relieved of his current duties and that he would receive new ones shortly, he spent the day pruning his fruit trees and thinking about what he should do. He was miffed the Bigfoot monitor tracking incident had not come up. They certainly must know about it. As evening settled he decided to sleep in the room he always did when he was visiting his grandparents as a young boy. Why this felt right was unclear. He started making the bed and was inexplicably drawn to look out the window. Tanya! He saw her standing there just like the first time when he was a young boy. As Moore’s attention focused clearly on her, his awareness bounced back to him,

