She crosses the tile floor, hazel eyes fixated on the bottom drawer to her antique desk, late forties or early fifties. What lies in the bottom drawer is a device so powerful—no—so dangerous, that it had to be hidden once it reach completion. It's been many years since she dared to gaze upon the device in fear of someone with nefarious intentions stumbles upon its dwelling place. Falling to her knees, she ignores the burning of her nose as she stirs up dust and cobwebs, and reaches for the desk handle, inching it open just enough for her to see the black metallic gleam on the small, circular device.
Her finger grazes the top of the device, silently noting how cold it is, but she tears her eyes away a moment—just to catch a glimmer of the outside world through the long over arching window in her bedroom— to watch the falling white snowflakes coat the world in a blanket of perfection, …show more content…
Only second in comparison to the atomic bomb, maybe even worse considering she can use the devices to stop the creation of the bomb to begin with. Yes, the girl who spends her days at home in a garage, tinkering away on the desperate hope and pathetic aspiration of achieving scientific achievement, has done it.
She has made time travel feasible, it's no longer the work of science fiction novels, television, and cheesy Disney channel TV shows, it's reality. Something that she succeeded in creating but at what cost? A world corrupted by power, by who has the better technology or politicians who've forgotten their place in government. No, she would not allow her invention to be used as a propaganda piece in the means to war, as something truly wicked to be used to correct mistakes of the past rather than learning from
Her finger grazes the top of the device, silently noting how cold it is, but she tears her eyes away a moment—just to catch a glimmer of the outside world through the long over arching window in her bedroom— to watch the falling white snowflakes coat the world in a blanket of perfection, …show more content…
Only second in comparison to the atomic bomb, maybe even worse considering she can use the devices to stop the creation of the bomb to begin with. Yes, the girl who spends her days at home in a garage, tinkering away on the desperate hope and pathetic aspiration of achieving scientific achievement, has done it.
She has made time travel feasible, it's no longer the work of science fiction novels, television, and cheesy Disney channel TV shows, it's reality. Something that she succeeded in creating but at what cost? A world corrupted by power, by who has the better technology or politicians who've forgotten their place in government. No, she would not allow her invention to be used as a propaganda piece in the means to war, as something truly wicked to be used to correct mistakes of the past rather than learning from