Across space and time

A man appeared before her he stood nearly an inch taller than her wearing what could only look like a white barong and black pants his hair was neat and on the side.. he looked at her with a confused expression and scared at his surroundings.. "Paumanhin binibini, maari bang malaman kung nasaan ako?" [Translation: Excuse me Miss, may I know where I am, exactly?] she put away her knife and looked at him with confusion she couldn't understand his language and shook her head in a saying of no , the strange man nodded and walked away..

"is there a shooting going on? what a strange guy" she continued her journey till she reached a a mysterious cave and went inside it when suddenly a glow of light can be seen from the other end of the cave, she carefully walked towards it when she saw an odd looking rock she decided to grab it when suddenly blacked out..

she woke up in the noise of horses and chariot... "where am I?.. " she said to herself with her head aching.. she looked around and saw herself in an alley where all people are dressed in Maria Clara and barong and some are riding in chariot... she was amazed and in disbelief that a minute ago she was exploring a cave and now she's in another place...

she suddenly recalls about the rock she is supposedly pick up on the floor and came into the conclusion that she must've time travelled and that rock seems to have some kind of enchantment...to make herself look like the rest of the people there she quickly went inside one of the dress shops exit door beside her and grabbed whatever she could put on just not to look like a stranger she went outside

she looked all around and saw on the newspaper dated 1650...Manila... "OMG! I travelled way back in 1650 Manila!!!..

" but how do I get back?.." she thought to herself long and hard when a man went to her staring at her blankly... "are you okay?" she nodded and said "y-yes I am.. where is this place?" the man laughed at her "you're joking right? oh.. you must be a foreigner here, Welcome to Manila! you're right now at Barcelona street" she shook her head in disbelief "Hold on?? you can understand me?? I can understand you??" to her surprise she was speaking his dialect.. "

the man took off his hat and bowed before her "excuse my manners, I am Rudy, yes I can understand you and you speak well in our dialect, and you might be?..." she Courtney back and said "I'm Celise nice to meet you, uhm.. I got no place to stay for the moment do you know where I could stay? "the man smiled and said "well I'm all alone miss at my house you can rent the other room only me and my maid live there" she smiled at him she didn't know why but she can feel her ease with this person, it felt warm "yes please if you don't mind Rudy"

Rudy stopped a driver and told her to get inside, she looked around town in amazement, the street were wide people look so elegant in their dresses and girls "they look so beautiful... tell me Rudy about yourself if you don't mind I'd like to get to know you better" the man looked at her and said "well... I'm okay with that I guess... I'm a student, working student to be exact... I work as a photographer while studying, I dream to be the best photographer all over the world!" she giggled "well I'm sure you will, I'm ... a Traveller in a way but for now I'm looking for something ... " the coach stopped and they got down "My house isn't that big but I do hope this would make you feel at home" , "no worries! ! it's actually very pretty! I love simple houses like these" she said to him Rudy placed his right hand on his pocket and gave her a copy of the key to the house and map "here you go, a map and key , I still need to go to work, so make yourself at home, and there's food in the fridge too I promise to be here as soon as possible" and with that he ran out of the gate and left.. she sighed "now I got to figure out how I could go back and get out of this.. " she went inside the house and looked around a huge picture frame hanging on the wall caught her attention it was a woman in a long dress and she's got the feeling that she has seen that face before...

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