“What the…” I didn’t say it. It might have been all too true.

“So, what are you going to do to me this time, Mr Leosphistepheleses whatever you name is?”

“Mephistopheles kid, and your best friend.”

“Yeah, right. So what are we here for?”

“Well,” he said walking to a particularly gnarled tree on the other side of the parking lot. “This just happens to be the best place to find a temporal energy anomaly.”

“A what-a-what-a-what?”

“A time portal,” Les sighed as if I was the most trying student in the world. Hell, damn I said it, I was probably his only student in the world if he spent all this time with me. “A wrinkle in time, a wormhole, a…”

“Okay, okay, I gotcha. so we have to go through that?”

Yes, and as quickly as we can.”

“Oh, why?” I asked, feeling a strange sensation as i rubbed my hand against a thin, blue looking circle of light.

“Because we’re about to see the white flash at the end of the world.”

“The white flash…?”