1536 — Greenwich, England

Born Alice. The year is significant. The court is close. Neither of these things is a coincidence, though it will take her centuries to understand why. She has always preferred Murder anyway.

1536–1550 — Audinghen, France

A wealthy merchant family. The kind with enough money to almost break the sumptuary laws and enough sense not to. At ten, she wakes up with green eyes and they lock her in. At sixteen she does the math on what they’re planning to trade her for and decides she’d rather take her chances with London. She has never once reconsidered this.

1550 — The Shore at Audinghen

A broken arm. A boy washing up from the sea. The arm fixes itself. The boy says she matches a description he was given. Neither of them is surprised for very long. They have not been apart since.

1552 — London

She is sixteen. She finds work. She moves up. She saves enough for two. They leave. She declines to elaborate.

1692 — Salem, Massachusetts

They arrive just before everything goes wrong, which is not entirely coincidental. She is briefly held. She gets out. She leaves something behind she has been trying to recover ever since. She does not care to discuss Salem.

1880s — The American West

A job. A difficult partner. A worse revelation about that partner. She was deceived, which doesn’t happen often and which she finds deeply irritating.

1888–1900 — New York City

Nikola Tesla is in town. Levi never quite forgives himself for not talking to him more. She has opinions about this she keeps to herself out of kindness.

1890s — London

A party at H.G. Wells’. A woman named Miranda. A question about time travel that Wells may or may not have been joking about. Murder is not laughing. She is also not leaving.

1920s — New York City

She sings. The city suits her. She makes a mistake she will not speak aloud for one hundred years. The singing was excellent.

1929–1935 — Chicago

They stay too long, which is always how you know it mattered. A man named Ezra almost knows her completely. Then he doesn’t. She blames Chicago, which is unfair to Chicago.

1936 — The Orient Express

A woman named Clarissa gives her a murder mystery and three days of uncomplicated friendship. She reads the whole thing before Bulgaria. She has thoughts about the ending.

1940s–1950s — Hollywood & Las Vegas

She almost gets married. He leaves when he finds out she can’t have children. She doesn’t tell him that’s the least of what he didn’t know about her. Hollywood is exactly as exhausting as advertised.

1967 — San Francisco

The Summer of Love. She stops eating meat. She has not reconsidered this. Levi has feelings about this he expresses regularly.

1977 — New York City

Something happens with Lucy. They leave faster than they should. She is not proud of this and she is not discussing it.

1980s — London

A detective named Teddy notices her papers don’t add up. He is kind about it. She is fond of him. He dies in the line of duty before it becomes a problem. She knows things about Jimmy Page she isn’t telling.

1989–1995 — Seattle

Grunge. Obviously.

1997-1999 — Paris. Fashion week meets Giselle and Yvette (Evy)

Present — New York City

She always comes back to this one. It’s the one that feels like home. Someone just shot her on stage at a concert. She finished the set anyway. She’s fine.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​