Benny and his thugs pushed into Richard’s home and slid the halo over his skull.
“Sorry Dick, You backed the wrong horse!” Benny said as he adjusted some buttons.
“Don’t kill me!” Richard pleaded.
“Oh, boss doesn't want you dead, just gone. So we are gonna time-cast your consciousness into someone who no one will listen to and history forgot!” Benny grinned. “Hope ya like lace!”
The paramedics found Richard staring blankly at a wall, comatose. Like the others, he was in an apparent comma, and like the others he never awoke. The emergence of these cases was a mystery.
160 years earlier, Richard straightened her skirts and meekly awaited the arrival of her husband. It had been two months since she had awakened in this time and in this body and she quickly learned that she had no voice in this society and no place other than that of dutiful young bride who was expected to endure her marital obligations. In time she may give him a son destined for greatness, but history will only remember her as his mother.