Liza had only been in the office a few minutes when she got a text from Jason Harris, one of the engineers in the New Constructions department; he was supervising her internship. He was asking her to come to his office.
“Liza, your friend Jacob, got hired to do tech support. The manager of tech support called me and asked if you could show him around the building. Introduce him to the department directors. He’s supposed to assure them tech will get caught up and all that…”
Liza was happy to do it, and thought it would be a nice way to get to know another person in Shay’s circle of time-travel friends. She hurried down to the floor where tech support had offices.
“Hey, Liza,” Jacob said. “So you get stuck with the new guy.”
“I don’t mind. It will be fun.” She immediately regretted her choice of the word “fun,” but it was too late to retract it.
She led him to the elevator and he asked, “Did Shay shift back yet?”
“Not yet.”
He said Kent hadn’t by the time he left the apartments last night. Liza asked him about his shifts, and he told her about them as they moved through the office. When the got to Will Robertson’s office, he asked them to wait in the conference room while he wrapped up a phone call.
“So,” Liza asked, “have you figured out if everyone is in the same universe… timespace I think you call it?”
Jacob shook his head. “But… I do have one bit of information…”
“Oh?”
“In 1880, there was a David Ryder. He was like a silent partner in every railroad with lines east of the Mississippi, including the Union Pacific… you know… that Golden spike thing…”
Liza nodded. “So, he was real?”
Jacob nodded. “And he had an only child, a daughter named Shay…”
Liza’s eyes bugged out. “So, it is the same timespace?”
Jacob shrugged. “I’m not ready to commit. Yet. I have a plan. That house on Bank Street. Title search… And what happened to Shay? And the fortune her father amassed?”
Liza was nodding so fast her glasses slipped down. “Okay, what’s our next step? What do we do now?”
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