CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us.”
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Sam was in exactly the same spot on the mountain, but no cats purred beside her and no flames roared below.
Through the canyon wall, Sam saw a refraction of light. A shiny object was wedged between two orange rocks. Could she hope it was the disk, the original one that she’d destroyed before the time warp opened? She scrambled up the hill, almost losing her footing as she hurried forward. She felt time pressing against her, its heavy weight holding her back as she took each higher step. At the top of the hill, she paused looking down from the dizzying height at the pebbles that had slid to the bottom. She thought about Greg and Phil, RoseAnn, and the child she might’ve had. She also thoug
