A Disquieting Portal
I spent the greater part of that week debating with myself about where and when to travel using the Torstein, as well as how to keep it safe while I was at college. Regarding the latter issue, I ultimately decided to keep it closed up in a ring box during my stay in the university’s dorms. Beth and I planned to room together, and hopefully none of our soon-to-be-peers would show interest in something so plain and small. If anyone disturbed it there, I could always continue to stuff it in my pants pocket like I had been doing since my return home.
I had to shelve my original hopes of visiting my brother or my mother using the stone, because Niofirgeban had been quite clear on that. Time travelers, it had asserted, should not travel to their own past because the tempta
