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Among his other projects, Valerie's father was working on a time machine, which consumed the bulk of his time. However, it wasn't to be just a time machine. The machine would also be an aircraft, spacecraft, submarine; it could change its mass and volume and self-configure into any shape it needed to be.
Valerie shuddered and gritted her teeth. That memory had not stopped intruding on her daily life ever since the event.
Valerie was a quick learner. She helped her father with building the machine into her teen years. Her father warned her to keep the project a secret. It wasn't that he was afraid of people stealing profits from his inventions. Rather, he explained that mankind was not and probably would never be ready for such technology. Mankind's perverse pursuit of science had given him the atomic bomb, gas chambers, and all manner of inflicting death and suffering on one another. Giving them such godlike power as he was developing would be their undoing.
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The boy had always wanted a normal field trip, and this was the closest thing she could offer now.
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