Kieran and Rajilad's Time Warp

THE KIERAN BOOK SERIES

Book 3 - KIERAN AND RAJILAD'S TIME WARP

By Alan Wallach

Published by Interlaken Publishing Co.

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Copyright 2013 by Alan Wallach

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Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes, … time travel and going to the stars.

- Michio Kaku

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a crank.

- Stephen Hawking

What time is it? You mean now?

-Yogi Berra

Table of Contents

Prologue - Kieran lectures his class.

Chapter I Rajilad works on the weird window.

Chapter II Vimar visits Rajilad.

Chapter III The learning machine.

Chapter IV The weird window is stabilized.

Chapter V The time-warp is finished.

Chapter VI Kieran's video of the past.

Chapter VII The Cummerfords visit Vigandond.

Chapter VIII Getting ready for time travel.

Chapter IX Time travel danger.

Chapter X Kieran meets Jefferson and Madison.

Chapter XI The return home.

Chapter XII Planning the second trip.

Chapter XIII Travel to another time.

Chapter XIV Ezra meets the time travelers.

Chapter XV Ezra comes to the future.

Chapter XVI The education of Ezra.

Chapter XVII Ezra applies to college.

Chapter XVIII Communicating from the past.

Chapter XIX Bal and Rajilad taken hostage by Jelek.

Chapter XX Vimar secretly plans a rescue.

Chapter XXI Kieran and Rikki attempt the rescue.

Epilogue Rajilad deals with Jelek.

Excerpt from Book 4.

About the Author.

Other Books by the Author.

Prologue – Kieran lectures his class

Kieran stood in front of his class with his notes in front of him. He was almost done with a presentation on the history of the city of Philadelphia for his extra credit term paper in social studies. Mr. Meyer, his teacher was listening intently, a little puzzled and curious. There were things in the presentation that Kieran certainly did not get from a history book. How did he know about Caspartown, which is nowhere on the current maps? Was there really a Caspartown? Where did he find out about what was on a menu in a diner in Caspartown in colonial days? Or did he make all that up? It sounded too realistic to be fiction. When he finished, Mr. Meyer looked at him.

A very good presentation, Kieran. Where did you get all that information?

Umm, I'm a very good researcher. I worked pretty hard to find out all these things. He hoped that would be enough for Mr. Meyer. Just then the bell rang and Kieran thought it had saved him. He was wrong. He picked up his backpack and social studies notebook, excused himself because he had another class and started to rush off. A photo, which was in his notebook, fell out of it and onto the floor. When Kieran bent to pick it up, Mr. Meyer saw it and reached for it in Kieran's hand.

May I see that? Mr. Meyer said with his hand still outstretched. Kieran, with a worried look on his face, handed the photo to Mr. Meyer who studied it and thought he recognized the two men with Kieran. He turned the picture over. There was a piece of paper pasted on the back with the autographs of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Mr. Meyer laughed. How did you get this photo? Mr. Meyer asked with another chuckle under his breath, and those autographs?

Kieran reacted coolly. It was a joke. I'm real good with Photoshop, he said, reaching for the photo. Mr. Meyer handed it to him.

That's pretty good work. Can you make a copy for me?

Sure. But I have to go, Mr. Meyer. I'm late for math, he said, as he ran out of the class. He thought, "Mr. Meyer doesn't realize what he's seen. I shouldn't have had the photo with me and now I have to tell Dad. He'll be furious.

Chapter I – Rajilad works on the weird window

Since Vimar, her immediate boss and also her friend, helped her escape from Pimglammam, the country in her universe, when she was under house arrest, Rajilad was intent on continuing her work. She was a very pretty blonde woman just shy of forty. She had a very expressionless exterior. An overt emotional reaction from her was very rare. It was not that she did not feel emotion, she just preferred not to show it. But her most significant characteristic was that she was something of a genius.

She was working on developing a window into the past, a time-warp wormhole. The device was supposed to be for General Jelek. Despite her displeasure with General Jelek, the director of the government group she had previously worked for in Pimglammam, she still wanted to develop it. Only now she wouldn't do it for Jelek, she would do it for herself, for her own scientific curiosity.

The environment that the Cummerfords provided for her since her decision to leave Pimglammam and come into their universe, made her very comfortable. She knew that Professor Cummerford was interested in her work and encouraged it. He saw her work as scientific with no direct military objectives. Rajilad really liked Professor Cummerford and his wife Sarah and had become very fond of Kieran, the Cummerfords' teenage son. She liked that he called her Raj. Back in Pimglammam, no one ever called her anything but Rajilad. She was very much at ease in the Cummerford home and didn't want to do anything to change that.

In Pimglammam, everything had to have a military objective or there was no government money for doing it. That's why Cran Jelek - cran was the word for general in her language - became the director of the group.

The same attitude, it seemed to her, was true in this universe and in this country. But at least in the Cummerford household, science for the sake of science prevailed. The reason was that Professor Cummerford was able to keep it secret. He knew not to tell anyone, especially in the government, anything about the wormhole windows they had in their house.

Kieran had recently found the weird window into the Aguntint universe, which Professor Cummerford and Fremod Aguntint had discovered years before. As a result, the professor was concerned that his well kept secret would be exposed accidentally by Kieran.

Things were getting more complicated. There was a weird window between the Aguntint and Cummerford universe and windows from Rajilad's universe into both the Aguntint and Cummerford universes. Rajilad was further advanced and had been listening to both their universes for some time. She had learned their languages and had brought most of her notes and diagrams from Pimglammam with her when she came from her universe into the Cummerford universe. She felt that she was making progress on the time-warp. But she was not sure just how much progress, since the project was very difficult and she had no way of knowing how close she was.

Rajilad had promised that before she devoted time to her window to the past, she would test the stabilizer she had developed for the window to the Aguntint universe. The Aguntint universe was through the weird window, as Kieran called it, in the Cummerford basement, but it was unreliable. It came and went without a pattern. It caused Professor Cummerford and Fremod Aguntint great concern because they were always afraid it would disappear and leave one of them stranded in the other's universe.

Once the window stabilizer was done, she could concentrate on making the window appear and disappear. When she accomplished that, she would have fulfilled her promise and she could switch her energy to the time-warp.

It was springtime in Muttonville and the weather was warm. Rajilad was wearing the jeans and yellow blouse she had bought with Sarah Cummerford's help. She liked the way people dressed here, cool and comfortable. She hated the lab coat she had to wear when she was working for Vimar. She didn't miss Pimglammam. She had no living family and few friends because she was a dedicated scientist deep in her work. Because of her deadpan expression, people assumed she was cold. She was anything but cold. And she did miss Vimar.

She was afraid to visit him because she worried that she would be discovered in the Pimglammam laboratory and be placed under house arrest. Cran Jelek had done it before. She had escaped to the Cummerfords' with Vimar's help. But she knew that Jelek would love to get his hands on her. Somehow she would like to see Vimar. She would like him to visit her if she could get a message to him. She thought that she could send him a message in English through the wormhole window without actually going through. But then she snapped out of her reverie, No time to reminisce, she thought. I have to get back to work.

The Aguntint window had returned and seemed reasonably stable so she turned the stabilizer switch on.