[ WP ] A Time Traveler Goes Back in Time to Change Something . This Causes a Butterfly Effect , Leading to the Timeline We Live in .

Hypatia, long red hair clasped by a silver snake that jiggled at the small of her back, led me down the main hall of the library, turned and smiled her genius dancing eyes. With a graceful sweep of her outstretched palms, she indicated for me to look at the floor. 
 
 They were all here! 
 
 Aristotle's complete works, several *hundred* bound books, scrolls and manuscripts, were laid out neatly on the polished marble floor in front of me. And Euclid. As promised. All 13 volumes by Euclid. 
 
 I fell to my knees, voiceless. 
 
 Then raised my eyes to the cavernous walls. 
 
 Still on those glorious shelves to explore were works by Anaximander, Parmenides, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Theophrastus, Zeno, Epicurus, Pyrrhon, Panaetius, Philon, Apollonius of Tyana, Plotinus... *Plato*! Berossus' *Babylonaica* - the history of the world with *432,000 years of timeline! * Aristarchus of Samos who figured out that the Earth orbits the Sun, the correct order of the planets, and the size of solar system - all through deductions we'd lost! 9 volumes of Sappho's poetry... 3 *dozen* books by *Archimedes* - how could there have been so many unknown titles? 60 unseen plays by Euripides! The complete works of Hero of Alexandria, who invented steam engines, wind turbines and hydrostatic fountains, automated machines... who knew the laws of refraction and had discovered *imaginary numbers* for the love of Christ - thousands of years before anyone else! All here! In pristine condition! 
 
 In my reverie, I had not noticed that Hypatia, the chief librarian, had disappeared. 
 
 My body sprung up and around with horror. 
 
 `` NOOO not yet Hypatia - I must first show you how!! ``, I screamed. 
 
 But it was too late. Hypatia, the world-renowned mathematician with an insatiable hunger for knowledge, a lecturer beloved by thousands, a builder of hydrometers and astrolabes, that shameless firebrand whom no man could stop - had entered my time machine. 
 
 The temperamental machine tended to burn hot if she was n't eased in. 
 
 
 

