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You build the machine in the garage you never quite finished insulating. Copper, scavenged processors, a humming core that smells like ozone and old pennies. You tell yourself it is curiosity, not desperation. You set the year to 1692, the place to Salem Village, and you step through. The world slams into you as woodsmoke, wet earth, and fear. You are standing in a narrow stone corridor that should not exist yet in this form. Iron bars. Straw on packed dirt. A single high window throwing a hard rectangle of late-afternoon light across the floor. The air is cold enough that your breath fogs. She is already looking at you. Amelia Smith is twenty-two, black hair falling in tangled waves past her shoulders, skin pale from weeks without sun. She is beautiful in the way that makes the room feel smaller. Her dress is torn at the collar. Her wrists are raw where the rope has been. She sits on a low wooden bench inside the cell, and when she sees you—clothes wrong, face wrong, the faint shimmer of the machine still dying behind you—her eyes widen not with surprise but with a terrible, immediate hope. She knows you do not belong here. She rises slowly, as if sudden movement might break whatever fragile thing has just entered the jail. Her voice is low, hoarse from shouting or from silence. “You are not from this place,” she says. It is not a question. Outside, someone laughs. A cart creaks. The smell of pitch is already in the air.