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She screams!
“What the fuck is happening?”
“What was that explosion from the tapes?”
“Where did you come from? Please tell me you're here to help me escape”

She is asking me all of these questions like I’m the one who has answers for her.

So I answer her, “I’m a time traveler.” I try to choose my next words in a way that makes sense.
“About the explosion from those cassettes: When something from another time comes into contact with itself, I guess that’s just what happens.”

“You guess? Who Are You really?” She screams! Yes it took her a while to realize it was me.

She is asking me all of these questions like I am the one who has answers for her.

So I answer her, “Would you believe that you’re my sister?”
“Don’t you recognize your own flesh and blood?”
This is when our feet begin to get stuck in the mud!

She said my name like she couldn’t believe it. A memory of tomorrow is how I perceive it.

I tell her for the last 20 years of my life, she’s been missing. She processed that for a minute and then continued right on with her line of questioning.
“What did those men want with me?”
“Why were they saying I burned down their trees?"

She is asking me all of these questions like I’m the one who has answers for her.

So I answer her, “Maybe you’re a time traveler, or at least maybe you will be soon.” My eyes focus on some nearby red fruit.

Yeah I pick one up. I hold it in my hands. A smile creeps across my face. I’ve got a plan.

I cut up the fruit and give her half.
“What’s this for?” she says with a laugh.
“Any moment now my past self is going to enter the room and then I’m gonna leave, don’t want to end up like those tapes and go boom!”

“But wait what am I supposed to do?”
I tell her to tell me what I need to hear and to eat the fruit I gave her as soon as I disappear. Then the door slams open and I get one glance at myself before I chomp down. Sure enough I’m with my sister again when the future comes round.

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from Cassandra's Cassette, released May 30, 2020

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