Chapter Sixteen
Only Yesterday
All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?
- Gene Wolfe
KAT
Tampa, Florida
Present Day
The next morning I felt like a train had hit me… and dragged me for forty feet when it was done.
My head was pounding. My limbs felt numb. A sickening feeling had settled in my stomach, and nausea had me running to the bathroom more times than I cared to admit, making me empty out what little contents had made their way into my belly from the night before.
I had definitely been drugged.
The knowledge of what had almost happened to me made the illness even worse. Before I could head back into the conference, I dialed Laney on her room line. T
