Several weeks later, Trudi was one of the guest stars in an American television series called Romance Hotel. While offscreen, she was invited to a dinner party hosted by the lead star Bob Worth. He introduced Trudi to actress Pandora Montague, who had been his girlfriend for eight years. Pandora was 49. She had dated a social swinger when she was 21-22, dated an actor when she was 23-30, and dated the producer of a series they began working on together when she was 30-38, having a daughter called Reece when she was 36. Their break-up when she was 38 led to the cancellation of the eight year run of the series which had brought Pandora and the producer together in the first place, namely the sitcom called ‘Marriage ain’t Easy’ She had been dating Bob from age 41 onwards.

Trudi told Pandora that she had grown up watching ‘Marriage ain’t Easy’, and confided in Pandora about her short lived marriage from age 18-20. Pandora likened it to the boyfriend she’d had from age 21-22, and the two women formed a fast friendship in the weeks that followed.

One day they were having lunch together, when Pandora spoke up about her observations of Trudi’s moods.

“Take it from a woman who’s been around for a while and seen a lot. You don’t have a boyfriend, and you’ve said you haven’t been remarried since you were 20. It’s not that I don’t believe you’re strictly telling the truth. It’s just that you always have a look in your eyes that speaks volumes about a man that’s very much on your mind.”

“I didn’t realise that it showed so much,” said Trudi, “And your intuitions are good, but it’s far different from any guesses you might have made. The short answer is that a younger man called Murray (who knew me in the future as a friend) managed to send his mind back in time to warn me of something. He told me that in the future, we both discovered a giant land, where we were caught by a giantess and held captive for two years as pets, until she decided to eat us. He’d watched the giantess put me in her mouth and swallow me whole, before he could manage to perform some sort of mental time travel technique. He managed it just before the giantess could stuff him into her mouth as well. What he did was ... well not like the kind of time travel in time machines that you see in movies and sci-fi television serieses. He didn’t bring his body back in time, but sent his consciousness, his very mind, if you like, back into the body of his younger self. So he was back in my present time (which was a few months ago) in the body of his present day self, but with all the memories of his meeting my older future self and having that adventure with the giantess.”

“That’s a story that defies the imagination,” said Pandora.

“It’s true though,” said Trudi.