The Ascended“You can't be Sam. You're so old.” The initial shock at his appearance was immediately replaced by skepticism.
He smiled and rubbed his gray-streaked goatee. “Yeah, I guess I am.” His smile faded, however, when he viewed my skepticism. “I suppose it really is hard to believe.” He stood up and stretched, arching his back to work out the kinks. “When the Ascended discovered the time hole on Earth it was hard for us to believe at first as well.” A light, snapping sound came from his back and he let out a sigh. “But I'll tell ya this, even though it's hard for you to believe I'm this old, I certainly feel it sometimes.”
“I'm sorry did you say the Ascended?” I continued to fix him with a look of suspicion. “Who the hell are they?”
Sam cracked his knuckles. The way he cracked them
