The Time Traveling Roommate

surreal-her senses dulled, and it was as though she was floating in nothingness. When the ligh

age room

ace swirling together. The walls that had once enclosed them had dissolved, leaving them s

voice was shaky as she tried to m

th the same shock she felt. "I... I do

ically trying to stabilize the machine that had caused this rupture in time. But the machine was co

f here!" Liam shouted

ound beneath them started to split. The swirling lights became more viol

ll of the rupture was unlike anything she had ever experienced. Her stomach lu

ut as her hand slip

next, she was weightless, spinning through a cascade of memories, events, and places that

couldn't bear it any lon

overed surface. She groaned, feeling the sharp sting of scrapes and bruises all over her body.

zed she was no longer in the void. She was outside-on the

Mia muttered to herself as s

The ground around her was scorched, and the remnants of a destroyed city loomed in the distance. Brok

in her chest. "Thi

real. She frantically looked around for Liam

, her voice echoing acros

espo

been separated? Was Liam even in the same timeli

mind raced with questions. What was that machine? Had it thrown them into a di

er feet. Mia instinctively ducked, covering her head as debris rained down from

he was a sitting duck. She had to move, had to

t. Each step felt heavier than the last, as though the weight of the world was pressing down on her. The

ws. She froze, crouching behind a large, overturned vehicle. Her eyes scanne

looked like he had been through hell, his face gaunt and his eyes wild with fear. H

mething about the way he moved, the sheer desperation in his eyes, set of

ifted his head, his eyes locking onto her wit

ible over the crackling of the fires a

hroat. "What do you mean? Wh

e her skin crawl. "You've stepped into a war

d. "What war? Wh

"Time broke. Reality shattered. And now... now

an's eyes rolled back, and his body went

over her. Time brok

a hole in the fabric of time itself, creating this nightmare o

hat had just happened. But she knew she couldn't afford to stay still. Liam was still o

moving again. She had no idea what lay ahead, but she wasn't goin

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fires, makeshift shelters, and the faint sound of voices. It seemed that there were othe

s. She had no idea who these people were or if they could be truste

eople huddled around a fire. They looked up in surpr

d, a tall woman with a shaved head

out where I am. I got... pulled here by some kind of machine. Have you s

Mia thought they were going to ignore her. Bu

d, her voice gruff. "But if you're looking fo

Mia asked, her

who knows anything about this place

o other leads, and if this Watcher could help

I find him?

ity. "He stays near the old clock tower. Bu

ng in her chest. The city seemed to close in around her as she walked, th

base of it, cloaked in shadow. The air around him seemed to ripple

s the W

s waiting