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I didn’t do anything to try to fool you! I’d never even seen you before this morning! Believe me, I would have been happy never to have met you at all!
    â€œBut all the kids on the plane were famous!” Chip protested.
    â€œNot me,” Jonah said, his face rigid. “Not Jordan, either.”
    â€œWhat plane?” Jordan asked.
    â€œThe one that brought you to this time period,” Angela said, picking up the explanation. “Well, it was actually a time-travel device, but it looked like an ordinary plane. Gary and Hodge were trying to escape some time agents who were chasing them, and so they crash-landed the plane in this time period. Thirteen years ago, I mean. I was working at the airport then, and that’s how I got involved. I saw the plane appear out of nowhere, carrying only babies . . .”
    She stopped and squinted toward JB.
    â€œWait,” she said. “Now the different dimensions are confusing me, too. Did Jordan’s plane crash-land, too? Or did Gary and Hodge send him here on purpose, just to confuse Jonah and make everything work with Charles Lindbergh?”
    â€œHard to say exactly at this point,” JB said distractedly, glancing down at his phone/Elucidator again. “Everything’s a little muddy right now, until . . . Ugh! Why can’t anyone locate that Lindbergh Elucidator at a moment that a qualified time agent can sneak into, so we can steal it?”
    He slapped his hand against the granite counter.
    â€œHow about sending someone who isn’t a qualified time agent?” Jonah asked. “If you need that defective Elucidator so you can make Mom and Dad and Angela the right age again, then—”
    â€œWe would never send anyone except a qualified time agent after that Elucidator,” JB said, with a tight smile that seemed neither happy nor friendly. “So it doesn’t matter whether anyone else could sneak after it or not.”
    He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game—only with higher stakes and greater consequences. The minute JB’s gaze dropped to his phone/Elucidator again, Jordan saw all the other kids besides Mom and Dad exchanging significant glances.
    Dad seemed oblivious. But Mom caught Jordan looking at her and she raised an eyebrow questioningly.
    â€œSend me to get that Elucidator,” Mom said abruptly, pointing right at the sparkliest E of the word CHEER ! on her sweatshirt.
    â€œWhat?” JB exclaimed, dropping his hand so his phone/Elucidator almost hit the counter.
    â€œIt makes sense,” Mom said. “I don’t belong in this time period anyhow, as a teenager. So I’m out of place to begin with. And that Elucidator would either be in the nineteen thirties or the far-off future, and I haven’t been in eitherof those time periods before, so there wouldn’t be any chance that I’d mess up time by being in the same place twice. And this would help my family.”
    She looked around beseechingly, her gaze lingering on Jordan and Jonah and Katherine.
    â€œOh!” Dad said, as if he were just catching on. “Send me, too!”
    â€œRight, because the two of you have the least amount of time-travel experience of anyone in the room,” JB said scornfully. “Even Jordan’s done more time travel than you!”
    Why did he have to use Jordan as the example of someone stupid and inexperienced?
    â€œYou could send me,” Katherine said. “Or Chip or Jonah or Angela. If it’s against time-agency regulations, you could do what you did when we were dealing with 1918 and you kind of accidentally on purpose set your Elucidator for voice commands. How were you supposed to know that some eleven-year-old girl like me would grab the Elucidator and zip off to the past in front of a bunch of assassins?”
    Did Katherine actually do that? Jordan wondered. His stomach felt