With Zoe’s help, we jumped back in Time – and Space, of course – to the empty country road we had gone back/forward to after Zoe had taken us to her Late 90’s Beach.

[Zoe is telling me that I didn’t make this clearer earlier on, and is threatening to take over this keyboard, so I’ll include some extra exposition so that she’s happy. Here goes: We went from 2042’s country road, to Zoe’s 1999 beach, and back to 2042’s country road; we eventually returned to New York, waited for the day that Other Us took the car to LA, waited for them to leave, and then the “Albino Cough” incident occured, and thus, we jumped back to where we were when we came back from the beach. Is this clear enough, Zoe? Yes? Good. So, let’s stop bothering our poor Reader(s) and – in the words of various characters in Monty Python and the Holy Grail : GET ON WITH IT!]

“What the hell just happened,” Zoe yelled at the peaceful countryside.

“I saw what happened…but I don’t quite know what happened…”