THE TIME IN MY HANDS - THE BEGINNING OF MY DIARY
(This story and others that will follow it take place in the distant future where time travel has been discovered and used by the rich and powerful of society to satisfy their darkest fantasies. The stories are told in the first person through one of those in charge of controlling time travel)
As I write these first lines of my travel diary, still don't really know why I'm doing it, a few days ago it seemed like a good idea but as the days have gone by I have been regretting it, after all do not know very well or who are you going to read this diary or at what point in history will you do it and if your reading will not bring consequences. Forgetting my doubts today, I decided to start writing before completely regret it.
The truth is that I do not know very well how to start, consider myself a man of action, an expert in science and technology and I do not feel comfortable with words, so will start by describing today and from there we will see how things progress.
Diary of a Time Traveler - 1st Entry
"The date that marks the calendar that hangs on the wall is June 14, 2005, I'm in my private residence at the Rafaello Palace in the Serene Republic of Venice, my favorite resting place when I have a few days off from my travels in time, look out the window and in front observe the Doge's Palace presiding over the Plaza de San Marcos that begins to fill up, with visitors to the Sunday Market, the smells of spices from the food stalls, the noise of the cars and the horses arriving at the square lead me to wonder if this picture is very different from the one that the famous traveler Marco Polo would see in his youth.
Time travel? Republic of Venice in 2005? Cars and horses? Do not worry, you have read everything correctly, I'm not crazy nor am I letting myself be carried away by my imagination, keep reading and what you will understand everything: my name is Jess Martin, I'm 26 years old and was born in a small town in Spain in the year 2315, after a childhood without anything remarkable, finished my studies at the university and just after doing it thanks to my excellent grades and extensive scientific and computer knowledge I joined the Travel Control Center to manage time travel.
Don't worry, I'll explain everything to you so that you understand it better, in the year 2217 a group of scientists investigating new energy sources discovered some portals that allowed time travel, after years of research to control those portals, the World Union ( which would be the organization equivalent to the UN of the 20th century) saw in these time travel a prosperous business and in the year 2243 allowed anyone to travel in time to enjoy different experiences. That same year the Travel Control Center was created, of which I'm now a part, I'm a mixture of temporary police in charge of ensuring that no one tries to change history and of a maintenance technician who must ensure the correct functioning of the portals.
I'm a member of a select group of people (about twenty) who can travel without restrictions to any point in the past and move without any prohibition among the inhabitants of that time, those unrestricted trips allowed me a few years ago to discover by chance that the portals used for trips they presented many more possibilities that I will not explain at this time."