The Last Time Machine. Forum A Parisian House

"What do you mean they disappeared?"
I scratch my beard. "I told you Joseph, they disappeared. They were in Versailles for two seconds then gone."
"They all go in the end. Just go."
He looked whistful for a second, cleaned his glasses and placed them back on his bony nose. "Did any scrap of paper get blown onto the spot where they stood by any chance?"
I laugh. "Yes. A single word written in blood. Chicken blood."
I hand over the piece of paper...

"Reincarnation."