There are two students in my Temporal Probability class who never talk to each other unless I specifically make them. This is because they aren’t real—just artificial constructs. I am going to have to talk to their parents.

My great aunt says that temporal probability isn't "probability" at all and they're just trying to off anybody who's got a clue as to the evil they're up to. Want to snuff 'em out. Replace 'em with a bunch of yes-person replicants let them drive the whole thing into the ground. What good they get out of it I wouldn't know. Leave us with a big bunch of slag heap seems to me.

I took the bus into town and walked all around and nothing happened. Nothing at all. It was free day at the museum so I went in, but nothing interesting happened. Then I walked through downtown to see the new buildings and couldn't find what they had torn down. Then I looked for a place to get something to eat but nothing stood out, so I took the bus back home.

This just goes to show what happens when your feelers are damp.

Betting in the school's underground temporal futures market is really tricky. Sure, on one hand, you're up against precogs and sooth sayers and the like, but on the other hand you're up against the time-machine crews who are always looking to flip the script. Sometimes you'll lose a bet that you won two weeks ago.

If you want to get the upper hand on temporal probability you've got to get to the control room. I had an internship there. Bringing coffee and stuff. I know where it is.

Standard protocol is that after an intern's time is up, they go back and undo your internship. Like it never happened. But when I was little and the doctor was supposed to give my sister and I the time chip, the doctor got distracted talking to my mom and they gave my sister both doses and I never got one. So when they flipped the undo it didn't take.

I can get us there, but once we're there what do we do?

So like... Is this on the math test? Can someone share the equation? I am really confused.What am I going to use this for outside of school? What even is it? Math is not my strong suit.

For those of you that bother to come to class know, Temporal Probability is when the same time happens at two different points in time. This requires multiple perceptions of time.

Yeah I'd be interested in getting to this Temporal Probability Control Room @Olive Black. So you're saying we could sneak in and... set everything up just like we want it? Temporal Probability-wise? Because I know just how we ought to set it up....

Temporal Probability Bases (Base I, Base VII, Base IX, etc.) are very clean. There are large surfaces to keep dust-free, angles where dust bunnies might accrue, tossed about in the high-powered filtered HVAC.

But you’re not supposed to notice any of that.

What you are supposed to notice are the screens, and the panels, and the sharp technicians in uniform. And the immense amount of power flowing through it.

@Maxon Interpreter's info is so out of date, they must have taken a TIME MACHINE to get here. To the future, that is.

Maybe it was that way back in the 1980s. But now it's all remote. Nobody goes into the office any more, and especially not the top brass.

There's even an app. So you can do it from your phone. You just wait for a temporal probability that needs to get nudged one way or another, and if you can do it you take the job. You get paid by the job. Most of them are easy, like "bump into this guy and spill your coffee on him" or "be on such and such a corner at such and such a time and offer directions to a woman in a blue skirt." I mean, those are easy ones, so you don't make much. Sometime they pay a super lot but, well, they're not always legal.