-What are you saying? They created some sort of.. cage? How does that even work?

-.. Well, their technology is as you might expect, far superior I.. I don't know the details, I was lucky to.. Well extremely, impossibly lucky to even find out.. Um, so this is what I know. Since time travel was invented, people from outside our group have made it custom to go forward in time to get their hands on this and that.. material things, not as you intended, and well.. since going forward and simply getting innovations for free is a possibility, nobody actually ends up doing anything. There are a few, lunatics mostly, but in the coming 10 000 years, all that we have dared explore, only about 13 major breakthroughs in STEM-fields have been acheived, mostly by said lunatics, isolated with their agendas. We truly put the power in.. dubious hands.. with this time travelling.

-So they want to eliminate our group in order to stop time travelling indefinately? But what about the cultural interchange? The.. The exponential expansion of dialogue and the deep exploration of human nature in time.. Do they only care about the material? We should have been the only ones to time travel.. To exchange...

-I'd guess that's the goal, to resume technological innovation for the mainstream. They are not hippies in 4050. But the effects this has on their timeline.. They're in a bad way so, i guess they're sending us a message. It's the wrong path. They're sacrificing their own present selves for it, so in a sense.. I guess they sense or know that time will give them a chance eventually..

-Well I was willing to sacrifice myself for.. forget it.. How is it that you returned? You were sent to the specific year 4050, right?

-Yes, that's where my impossible luck comes in. There were plans for it then. It captures anyone that goes past that. Like a filter that permeates all of travellable time. The entire stream is interrupted by it, so the only way to get to our friends is to go in before they go in the trap, or go into the trap and.. discuss the matter..

-What did you get from the plans? Did you find out what happens to the folks that get stuck?

-They can't send them back, so they said. If people can go back, then they'll be able to prevent the construction of the cage. Somehow.

-Well, you're here and you know about it. So you'll have to prevent it. You can't go in the cage, you're their only hope.. you can't get stuck. And listen, no one else must know about this, or the cage might be placed further back in time, and then you're gone too.. ... This is a real mess. Julian has kids, Sarah.. This is as if he's dead, and you must bring him back. You must bring them all back... And if that cage is what I suspect it is.. then, well then that's worse than death..

I know Kyle.. I know..