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was on Earth. As she walked slowly back to Walter’s Mustang, she thought back to the Aurora and James. I miss him. He told me he lived in England before we met. Now where was that place? Brampton. Yes, it was Brampton, in an area called Cumbria, I think. I’m sure that’s what he told me. Deep inside, she felt a need to be closer to him, even if it was just a passing reference to his life. There’s nothing to keep me here now except my job. I could go to England to see where he lived. Londuo pondered and then with great determination said,
    ‘I’m going to go to England!’
    Londuo sold the house, but kept all of Violet’s paintings and her artist equipment. A year later, in 1985, she moved to England and bought a cottage in the small village of Brampton, in Cumbria, where James had lived before they met. The following year she imported Walter’s Ford Mustang.
    Inspired by Violet’s paintings, which she had now hung around the cottage, Londuo used the surrounding landscape as subjects for her paintings and created many works, some of which she started to sell. Then, one day while painting, she wondered what they might have created back on Qintaino had they used similar methods and techniques. And so she started to experiment by mixing her technical know-how with paints and other materials.
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    A few years later, the art world was suddenly amazed by a new artist, Jane Packard, an American who had created a new type of painting called a magnogenic canvas. Londuo had managed to charge particles of paint with a magnetic field. This allowed the paint to literally rise from the surface of the canvas to predetermined heights proportional to the charge held within them. This meant the flat canvas, once powered, was transformed into a three-dimensional painting. Suddenly, everyone wanted this new expressionist work. Her paintings were based upon her memories of pictures she’d seen of Qintaino, using very vivid colours; reds, oranges and yellows. Some depicted huge brightly coloured buildings, others strange looking animals and flowers. Londuo tried to avoid too much attention; the technology was very simple to her, but seemed to cause a lot of press releases.
    Londuo felt great satisfaction; she had created works that would last many years or even centuries. She felt very proud of herself.

Chapter Four
    The year 2005 arrived. Londuo knew this was the year Lex, Carol and James arrived on Earth and eventually settled in a remote cottage in Brampton, near to where she now lived. Being there made her feel still very much in love with him and she often thought of him while wandering around the countryside of Brampton, trying to imagine what sort of life he had there.
    One day, whilst driving home, she thought of James and distracted, missed her turning and ended up driving down a narrow lane. Then, suddenly her attention was drawn to a ‘for sale’ sign pointing to a cottage. James had told her all about the house where he had lived, and from a distance that cottage looked like the one he had described to her. She slowed the car.
    It couldn’t be, could it? She looked at a large oak tree in front of the house. This has to be it. She felt excited. It’s fate I came this way. I could buy it. Maybe rebuild it and live there.
    The day after, she went straight to the estate agent where the cottage was for sale, but to her disappointment the advertisement about the cottage in the window had a ‘sold’ notice on it. Someone’s already bought it, she thought. So much for fate; it looks like I’m too late. She felt deflated and started to walk down the road, but then a terrible thought crossed her mind. This was about the same time that Lex bought the cottage. I’m back in 2005 and everything should be different now if we changed the timeline. What is the chance that in two different timelines, this run-down cottage is sold in the same year? What a coincidence! Londuo suddenly stopped and looked back towards the estate