Diana Gabaldon · @Writer_DG
25th Jan 2014 from TwitLonger
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“Any scientific approach starts with observations, though, and we have enough to those to maybe construct a series of hypotheses. Testing those…”
The idea of testing those made Brianna’s hand shake so badly that she was obliged to set down her pen and breathe slowly for two or three minutes, until the black spots stopped swarming in front of her eyes.
“Hypothesis 1,” she wrote, gritting her teeth. “That the time passages/vortices/whatever the bloody hell they are, are caused by or occur at the crossing of ley lines. (Defined here as lines of geomagnetic force, rather than the folkloric definition of straight map lines drawn between ancient structures like hill-forts, henges, or places of ancient worship, like saint’s pools. Supposition is that folkloric lines may be congruent with geomagnetic lines, but no hard evidence to this effect.)
Evidence: Some. But to start with, we don’t know whether the standing stones are part of the vortex-thingy, or just markers, set up when ancient people saw other ancient people step on the grass right…_there_…and Poof!”
“Poof,” she muttered to herself, and reached for the glass of wine. She’d planned to drink it as a reward when she’d finished, but at the moment, felt more in need of first aid than reward. “I _wish_ it was just poof.” One sip, two, then she set it down, the citric edge of the wine lingering pleasantly on her tongue.
“Where were we? Oh, poof…”