The Geekorium

{{% voiceinthedark %}}You are searching for the Torimbalo.{{% /voiceinthedark %}}

“Well I still don’t know what that is,” corrected Rex, “I’m looking for the Ortrix right now.”

Rex continued his clumsy dance through time and space, following the temporally luminous thread of the Ortrix. The Other followed alongside.

On a nondescript planetoid, in a system that no longer existed, the thread unravelled.

Finding where it ended, Rex turned to his companion bewildered.

“This isn’t the Ortrix. This is the time belt!”

Rex crashed through the past.

Following the thread of time, he ricocheted around divergent moments trying to find one that would not alert Jones to his changes.

He found the threads increasingly intertwined about the presence of the Ortrix.

{{% voiceinthedark %}}Where are you headed Rex? {{% /voiceinthedark %}}

The voice of the other startled Rex enough that he misjudged a quantum event and plunged through the fusion-heat of a star seventy thousand years in the past.

“Shoot, man! Don’t do that,” he complained.