Chapter 13: Oscar!Leo, approximately fifteen years earlier
This time through the portal, they were going up the slight incline in the opposite direction of their previous entries into this meadow. On the plus side, being only about a fifteen-year time difference, they didn’t experience the same kind of slope change as in their previous trips, so neither of them tripped.
On the why-the-f**k-didn’t-their-older-counterparts-warn-them-about-this side, the portal was literally surrounded by spear-wielding, shouting warriors, which when he thought about how Older Leo had mentioned it was only a short time—maybe a couple hours—since Oscar had arrived, made sense that they’d be keeping a close eye on this spot.
They would be at their equivalent of DEFCON 1 after that alarming scene when Leo, Vi
