“Welcome home, Kari.”

“What?”

“Welcome home.  This is your uncle’s farm, but not in the year two thousand and seven.  This is 1880.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I never believed Ned when he told me he had traveled through time.  He had this place when I happened along and he said he and his brother had to move forward through the portal of time.  He said his brother had to meet Anna so they could have their child, a girl.  That girl is you.”

“What the hell are you blabbering about?  I thought I had lost it, but it looks like you have!”

“Come out to the barn.  I want to show you something.”

Kari got to her feet and followed him to the door.  He held it open for her and she walked out onto the porch.  She glanced around and still felt that familiar tug that she was home.  As she followed Razor to the barn and inside, she stopped.  It looked just like her Uncle Ned’s barn.  The stalls were the same and there was her Uncle’s horse in the stall!  “Horse,” she cried, running over to him and petting him.  “How did you get here?”

“He’s been here all the time.  He never ages a day and has been waiting for you to appear.”

“But why didn’t you know who I was when you found me in your bed?”

“I thought you might be working for Kyle Harker and it was some sort of trick to catch me before I caught him.”

“The outlaw on the wanted poster!”

“Yes.”

She watched Razor walk over to the back stall and bend down to pick up a box.  It was the box she had found.  “I don’t understand!”

“You were meant to be here in this time with me.”

“What?”  Kari felt sick at her stomach.  What the hell was going on?  It was weird enough that she was there, let alone Razor telling her she was supposed to be there and that her uncle and father were from this time.

“All I can tell you is that you are stuck here.  This is where you are supposed to be.  Ned said one day you would be, and that I was to take care of you…”