Frederico's Time Machine Odyssey

The room was dark, but the crackling fire cast a glowing orange light on the walls, illuminating the man in front of me. He wore a long brown robe that hung loosely around his body, with a hood covering his head. His thick grey beard reached down to his chest, and his eyes were a deep blue.

“I have studied your case for weeks, and I can assure you, you are perfect for the procedure.” He said in a deep voice that rumbled through the room.

“What procedure?” I asked nervously.

The man leaned forward in his chair. “You will be travelling through time, Mr Motz. I am an extremely skilled alchemist, I have been performing experiments with time travel for many years now. Although they may not have worked yet, they soon will!” He exclaimed joyfully.

My heart raced as he spoke to me; I had always dreamed of meeting an alchemist who could travel through time! “So where would you send me? What year would you take me to?” I asked eagerly.

“Well Mr Motz-” The old man paused to clear his throat before continuing “I am afraid that I cannot tell you this information yet; it is very important that I do not risk changing anything whilst my experiments are underway, so for now all you need to know is that it will be somewhere between 2021 and 2023. And also Dresden, Germany! You see Mr Motz, I can only take someone from their current location when their mind is completely relaxed; hence why we created these relaxation chambers!” The old man shouted jovially as he jumped up from his seat and gestured towards the chair opposite me.

I couldn’t believe it; he was going to create a time machine for me! As I sat down on the chair, the old man walked over to a small table next to the window and picked up two small glasses before walking back to my side of the room and handing one over to me as we both drank deeply from them. He then sat down on the edge of my chair again before taking out a small cream coloured book from underneath his cloak and opening it slowly to reveal several handwritten pages covered in hand drawn diagrams and sketches of strange symbols that were almost unrecognisable as human language. After scanning through what appeared to be an index at the start of the book, he finally closed it again before putting it back underneath his cloak once more.

“Where did you get this book? It looks ancient!” I asked curiously as I looked from him to the book in disbelief. My hands trembled slightly as I tried desperately not to drop my glass of wine as he smiled at me widely and stood up slowly before walking over towards his desk where he opened up another drawer and took out what looked like a small metal key with a circular handle on top before walking back towards me and holding it out towards me whilst still smiling widely at me.

As he held out his hand towards mine with the key in it, he began explaining how each symbol in this book represents an individual letter in our language today – although they used different characters than we do now – which was why they seemed so unrecognisable at first glance before continuing by explaining how these letters are put together in words which represent objects or actions so that people can learn how to perform certain tasks whilst also learning about history or science through these books as well as allowing them to understand other languages too! It all sounded incredible; even though we are able to write things down today using computers like most people do nowadays – although some people still use paper too – there are still thousands of different languages spoken around the world today which everyone learns differently depending on where they live or grew up in while using these books allows us all to communicate with each other despite our differences! This was something that hadn’t been possible without these books until now!

When Mr Motz finally finished speaking after nearly half an hour talking nonstop about these books, he gestured towards himself before looking at me questioningly as if asking whether or not I understood everything he had just told me before smiling brightly once more when I nodded slowly at him happily whilst looking at him happily myself with excitement filling my heart as we stood there staring at each other happily for several minutes until he sighed softly and shook his head slightly at himself before looking back up at me waiting expectantly for my approval. Finally understanding what he wanted from me – although he didn’t have much choice but to wait since he did say that my mind needed to be completely relaxed for this process after all – I smiled broadly back at him happily before nodding enthusiastically causing him let out another sigh but smile back at me happily nonetheless as he reached forward and unlocked my forehead gently with the key before pulling away quickly when nothing happened except for a few sparks flying out of my head causing him to laugh loudly along with myself.