Book Five, Chapter 127: Unconventional Layoffs.
On-Screen
I didn’t have to record. We would be On-Screen anyway, and I was getting low on battery.
We stood in the faculty lounge, pleading our hearts out so that two scientists and one detective—of some kind—might try to help us. It was time for everything to fall into place.
“If a serial killer were traveling through time, I think our organization would have detected it by now,” Dr. Black said. She was a serious woman, but she held a spark of curiosity to her that made me think we might get through to her.
“You have,” I replied. Then I looked at Camden so he could take over with the explanation. I didn’t know how much of our journey to the Carousel Casino limbo timeline would end up in the final cut, and I wanted him to have some On-Screen time.
“Grant Leitner has come under KRSL scrutiny before,” Camden said, “in other timelines.”
“I love that excuse,” Dr. Garvin scoffed, clapping his hands together. He was young and cocky, with long blond hair—probably drove the secretarial pool wild. “If we ask for evidence, you can simply say, ‘We left our evidence in another universe.’”
He stood cross-armed at the front of the room, his every effort designed to display how skeptical he was.
“It’s true,” Camden replied. “KRSL started hunting them down, keeping an eye on the timeline. We’re not quite sure how it happened exactly, but we do know how Generation Killer solved that problem—the same way they solved every problem. They just started killing you. Eventually, they killed enough of you that every timeline where KRSL discovered them got culled. The killers themselves probably got dragged to the other side of time just for doing it, but they didn’t care. They’re terrified of you. And if they find out that you know about them, they’re going to do the same to your timeline.”