Chapter 24Danby, December 26, 1815
Track Three
Katarina Rasmirovna thought she had made peace with the bizarre course her life had taken. She had observed and handled the timepieces; she had seen the world literally change around her; Maxwell had proven his bona fides with a dozen pieces of knowledge both large-scale and intimate. Had there been anyone with whom she could have discussed the last impossible week, she would have said that of course she believed Maxwell’s tale of time traveling to be true. She had changed the entire course of her life based on her belief in his veracity, after all.
But when her hotel sitting room dissolved around her, replaced with a shimmer like the sparks of dying fire, Katarina knew that the depths of her heart had not really believed it all until that
