How can a magical mystery machine of a van driving through sparkly fog and taking control of another body in another time be part of the same time travel dynamic? I’m not going to answer that here aside from saying there’s a method to my madness and it’s not all that different than how TP introduced a related differentiation between “in head” vs. “full ghostly body” time travel. Techniques evolve, and the redhead is from far enough forward she’s ahead of the curve<\/a>\u2014especially when she’s going rogue…1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Aside from the time travel tale tributes and teases of the redhead’s skills, this chapter also serves as a “show, don’t tell” way of letting Local Boy know his kids turn out ok while giving him something different to worry about when he returns back to the past of his present. I also tried to2<\/a><\/sup> give the reader some reminders of what to keep front of mind as the story progresses. (“The old man said I married the wrong girl…” “Are you my wife or not?”<\/em> “How can I participate in a memory of something I have no memory of?”)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This change of pace chapter switches up the time travel dynamic\u2014or does it? More overtly Quantum Leap inspired than what we’ve read so far, Local Boy occupies the body of his future self while the redhead takes over a future version of his wife. 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