desk in the corner , put his feet up and continued looking at the maps. Alvarez and Merced drifted outside to talk with the squad leaders, so they could brief the troops. Alone, Trask closed his eyes and tilted his head back. From here on out, he'd have to take things as they ...
It is a standard storytelling scene with a twist that is telegraphed in the opening paragraph, because the bartender is actually a temporal agent recruiting the customer to join a shadowy organisation that manipulates the timeline through time travel. Before long, the conversation ...
Within the first few sentences, we find out. As the title says, on the floor. Collapsed on the floor: “I am sitting on my right foot and it hurts. I must ease it, push it away, push hard! So! Now I am comfortable.” How did we get here? Answered in the second paragraph: “...