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breezeshadow On that cold morning in Livadiya, somewhere church bells were ringing. Perhaps they were the palace chapel's -- did they ring on February 5th 1945? Or were these within the town? Mykola tightened his grip on the M44 rifle in his hands, modified to be a sniper rifle in all but name. The M44 had been a purposeful choice, to throw off blame from the Finnish. He was there to stop suffering, not cause more of it.
He was dressed for the cold in modern gear that he could likely sell for hundreds, if the people of Livadiya could but see him. That was one of the many idiosyncrasies of time travel and the human psyche. The brain saw what it wanted to see, and on that morning in 1945, people wanted to see the three men of the world. An assassin would not be unheard of, but they would expect someone in 1940s gear, someone camouflaged. Not someone in bright Northface clothes. The universe and human mind both knew he wasn't from around here, wasn't right -- and so he became no one at all.
It was easy to forget the mission and want to explore the past as an invisible person. It was thought that many initial travelers were lost this way. Amazed that the technology had worked, and more amazed by how people didn't seem to really see them, they were lost to the time period. What happened to them, no one really knew. Everything about time travel was based on theory.
If you traveled incorrectly, you disappeared in a way that Stalin would have killed for.
He was dressed for the cold in modern gear that he could likely sell for hundreds, if the people of Livadiya could but see him. That was one of the many idiosyncrasies of time travel and the human psyche. The brain saw what it wanted to see, and on that morning in 1945, people wanted to see the three men of the world. An assassin would not be unheard of, but they would expect someone in 1940s gear, someone camouflaged. Not someone in bright Northface clothes. The universe and human mind both knew he wasn't from around here, wasn't right -- and so he became no one at all.
It was easy to forget the mission and want to explore the past as an invisible person. It was thought that many initial travelers were lost this way. Amazed that the technology had worked, and more amazed by how people didn't seem to really see them, they were lost to the time period. What happened to them, no one really knew. Everything about time travel was based on theory.
If you traveled incorrectly, you disappeared in a way that Stalin would have killed for.
