"But there is no war."
"Not in your time, but in another time."
"But how…"
"Remember Michaelson?"
"The man who went a second into time."
The masked head nodded and the screen went blank and Adams sat and felt the chill of horror trickle through his body.
The visor buzzer purred at him and mechanically he snapped the toggle over.
It was Nelson in the glass.
"Sutton just left the university," Nelson said. "He spent an hour with Dr. Horace Raven. Dr. Raven, if you don't recall, is a professor of comparative religion."
"Oh," said Adams. "Oh, so that is it."