Pāhonoa te oro

I’m one of three people who can truthfully say we’ve time travelled. It’s not what you think it is. My name is Jake, and if you’re imagining anything dramatic—machines, lights, some kind of portal—you’re already wrong. Nothing about it felt like science fiction when it started. If anything, it felt… underwhelming. Like we had all fallen for something that wasn’t even real. The first time I met Marcus and Lila, we were sitting in a waiting room that looked like it hadn’t been updated in years. Th