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101They were in the cow shed. %u201cTheir feed needs changing and you must to fill their water troughs from that tap. You can milk them after. They are more passive after they%u2019ve eaten. Come in and tell me when that is and I%u2019ll show you how to collect their milk. We%u2019ll boil it, bottle it, and then make it ready for the shop in the village to collect early this evening. Tom distributes it in the morning when the day is cool,%u201d she explained to him.%u201cDo you have refrigeration?%u201d He asked.%u201cWhat%u2019s that?%u201d%u201cA device for keeping things cold,%u201d he replied.%u201cNever heard of that,%u201d she said.%u201dI have a stone building large enough to store the milk once it cools down. He%u2019ll collect it from there in the crates he supplies and pay me at the end of each milk.%u201dShe left him to it and he began the work.Inside, she looked out of the window at the cow shed. She needed a man to help with the work and he was a kind and careful lover. She knew though that if she became attached to him, she would feel deep loss again if he was rescued by his people. She had not had time or the inclination to digest his fantastic story. It was like something out of a Jules Verne's novel, she thought.In the shed, he wondered what she thought of him. He had broken a cardinal rule by having sex with her. Should she have a child by him and his superiors found out, they would come and kill the child, possibly her too. It wasn%u2019t to be cruel. It was to ensure they did not interfere with time-fated events. There is a theory in his time. Leave a seed in the future and it will blossom, mesh with reality and alter what would have otherwise been. Scientists in his era believed all moments The Time Traveller