A chrononaut reports that time travel cannot alter past events because history is predetermined and causally linked. Attempts to break those links provoke a forbidden state in which the traveler's body refuses to obey. Some locals appear exempt from that constraint because they have no role in history, while chrononauts remain outside the past and can be killed by locals without affecting historical outcomes. The narrator uses invisible recording gear, struggles with the smell of tanned leather that inconvenienced transit and technicians, and has captured enough footage to meet contractual and financial goals.
Forget all the nonsense you heard about time travel. You can't go back and kill your grandfather. The past has already happened. Everything is linked, each event underpins the next, everything is determined; you can't do anything to break those links. Try, and you enter a forbidden state. Your body won't obey your will. Attempting to hurt locals usually puts you in a forbidden state but not always. I guess some people just have no role in history.
My camera and recording gear are invisible even to a close examination. My poorly tanned leather clothing reeks so badly I was thrown off public transport on my way to get to the transmission station and had to ride in a taxi with the windows open, paying double fare, to get to my slot in time. After I applied a last-minute dash of odorant, the technicians at the transmission station were breathing through cupped hands.
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