Mc Fizzer and other stuff

Mc Fizzer pulled his chair closer to the fire and me - sat and said, "Ask away, anything you wish to know and i will answer as candidly as i am able."

I began the Q&A with an easy one (well so i thought). " Where am i?"

"You are in the home of a friend of mine, i use this room whenever i pass this way, it is warm, safe and anonymous so it fits its purpose."

"Ok - but where is this room - this house?"

"In York of course."

"York, great," i exclaim, "lets go back to my place i can get a shower i stink and this dried blood..."

Mc Fizzer holds his hand up to silence me again, "We are in the city of York and the date is 1874. So you are something like 134 years from your home."

My heart sinks, clearly i am again in the hands of another lunatic. I look to the door to determine my escape but it is behind Mc Fizzer and in my current condition i am in no state to undertake some serious body swerving. I will try and humour him. "1874 you say could you prove it to me Mr Mc Fizzer?"

"Just 'McFizzer' is fine and whats to prove Tavis? Take a look around." He gestures to the room with open arms.

I have to concede that the room is rudimentary - stone floor, no electricity, the furniture is basic enough and it smells worse than me. But this is a safe house, he said so, so we could be in some kinda underground bunker. I stare into the fire and not for the first time i think i am going crazy.

McFizzer can plainly see i am struggling with a dilemma and he comes to my assistance. "Perhaps it is best if try and explain the situation but please interrupt if anything i say is unclear. All i ask is that you trust me and open your mind Tavis, if you do you will find that your understanding will become deeper."

McFizzer begins. "We are all travellers, humankind in all its forms has always travelled, whether it be to explore, conquer or for pleasure it is in our nature to travel. We are an inquisitive species and this as always driven us on, further and further out into the corners of our planet and then beyond into space to explore more and more planets. Scientists sit in white coats at electron microscopes peering into new worlds hidden in the minutia of everyday objects and physicists spend whole lives attempting to understand the very being of our existence and the universe. Now Tavis ask yourself this, what if somewhere at sometime in the future someone was so inquisitive and had the mental capability to match they decided to create a new form of discovery - a new way to travel - a way that enabled them to traverse not only space but also time,"

At this point i believe i coughed and muttered something about Doctor Who and Back To The Future - only to be shot a glare from McFizzer that took me aback so i said no more and allowed him to continue.

"Unfortunately, as anyone who has even a basic understanding of science knows, there is no such thing a free lunch, there is always a price to be paid, an equal and opposite reaction, positive and negative, push and pull."

This was all getting a bit abstract for me so i interrupted again. " So you are saying that me, Tavis Parks is a time traveller?"

"Yes."

"Cool."