NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<p><strong><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelingGhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelingGhost</span></a> Part 22: Episode 2: 1937: The Hindenburg Part H</strong></p><p><strong>Prompts: <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wss366</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/MastoPrompt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoPrompt</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelAuthors</span></a> 7/23</strong></p><p>“Let’s go look out the observation window,” I said. I needed to think about the rabbit hole I’d fallen down, a hole complete with ghosts, time travel, vampires, mind-reading, and now Nazi rabbits. Each a <strong><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/symbol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbol</span></a></strong> of how far I had fallen. And, as if that god-awful hodge-podge of impossibilities weren’t enough, I had a dozen other questions. Who or what controlled this time-travel business? Should I get involved with Ms. Pang? Would she really be a good travel companion—wait, I hadn’t stipulated “<em>good</em>,” only that she could be a travel partner. Folklore said wishes were tricky, more likely to bite you than befriend you.</p><p>I sighed and put the questions out of my mind. It was pointless to speculate about this time-travel business or even who I was. I had no information. The same was true for this woman. She “<em>could</em>” be a travel companion, and only time would reveal if I wanted her to be.</p><p>I found a spot at the window that wasn’t near anyone. Outside, <strong><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a></strong> spread as far as the eye could see. A few boats dotted the surface, but they were shrinking. “<em>We must be rising,</em>” I thought. Using a soft voice, I said, “Okay, tell me about the rabbits and the papers. Then I will tell you if I’ll help.”</p><p>“You’re not on their side or a communist, are you?”</p><p>“I don’t know who ‘their side’ is, but I’m not a Nazi or fascist. I don’t think I was a communist. It bothered me when you casually called Mademoiselle Baker a communist. She was a <strong>symbol</strong> of freedom, not tyranny. So I might have been a liberal. If you’re worried I’ll betray you, forget it. The worst that happens is I jet to another time and let you worry about the ship crashing.”</p><p>She nodded. I’d learn that was a habit. “I was a colonel in military intelligence, and no cracks about there being no intelligence in the military.”</p><p>That stung until I took into <strong><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/account" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>account</span></a></strong> my “late for dinner” joke.</p><p>“I worked very hard to be promoted and am the highest-ranking woman in the intelligence service. My employer, the Arkham Daily Star, plays along. I was in Germany investigating some top-flight American psychologists who’d taken jobs in Heidelberg. I discovered they’d been hired for top-secret work researching mind-reading. Awful stuff, using human test subjects. It’s too gruesome to talk about—trepanning and electrodes, that sort of thing.”</p><p>I didn’t point out she was already talking about it. I was just glad she moved on.</p><p>“They must have caught on because they revoked my press card and hinted unpleasant things might happen to a nosy woman if she didn’t leave the country. I had all my notes with me, and I think that’s why they sabotaged the ship. Those papers must get to US intelligence.”</p><p>“And the rabbits?” I asked, afraid of the answer.</p><p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Serial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Serial</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMPrompts</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMTTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMTTA</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMV366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMV366</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMMP</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/PulpFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PulpFiction</span></a></p>