Journey Through Time

'This morning,' the Time Traveller began, 'I finished the final adjustments to my machine.' 'I sat in the saddle and placed my hands on the levers.' 'My heart was beating very fast.' 'I took a deep breath and pushed the lever forward.' 'At first, I felt nothing.' 'Then I noticed that the clock on my wall was moving strangely.' 'The hands were spinning around faster and faster.' 'My servant came into the room to clean.' 'She moved across the floor like a rocket and vanished.' 'I pushed the lever further forward.' 'The room around me became dark and then light again, dark and light.' 'Night and day were flashing past like the wings of a bird.' 'I saw the sun jumping across the sky, rising and setting in seconds.' 'The walls of my laboratory faded and disappeared.' 'I was now outside, flying through time.' 'Buildings grew up around me like plants, then crumbled to dust.' 'I saw great cities rise and fall in moments.' 'The landscape changed constantly around me.' 'Trees appeared and disappeared like puffs of smoke.' 'I felt a terrible fear growing inside me.' 'What if I could not stop the machine?' 'What if I flew through time forever?' 'I watched the dial on my machine.' 'The numbers were spinning faster than I could read them.' 'Thousands of years passed in minutes.' 'I noticed the sun growing larger in the sky.' 'The sky itself changed color, from blue to deeper shades.' 'Strange new buildings appeared, different from anything in our time.' 'Then even these disappeared, replaced by green hills and forests.' 'I decided I had gone far enough.' 'I pulled the lever back to stop the machine.' 'But I pulled too hard and too suddenly.' 'The machine fell over on its side.' 'I was thrown onto soft grass.' 'For a moment, I lay there, too shocked to move.' 'Then I sat up and looked around.' 'Everything was quiet and still.' 'The world had stopped spinning.' 'I checked the dial on my machine.' 'It showed the year 802,701.' 'I had traveled almost eight hundred thousand years into the future.' 'My hands were shaking as I stood up.' 'What kind of world would I find here?' 'Had humanity become great and powerful?' 'Or had we destroyed ourselves long ago?' 'I was about to find out.'

Chapter Summary

Comprehension Questions

What was the first sign that the time machine was working?

What did the Time Traveller see while traveling through time?

What year did the Time Traveller arrive in?

Why did the time machine fall over when the Time Traveller stopped?

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