"There's this Project, this Project called Blackwing."
They didn't know the person they had heard it from - they didn't know the voice or the face, it was simply part of the vision as they travelled back to the twenty-first century once more.
Carrie and Cassandra hadn't actually been born in the twenty first century but it was almost certainly the nicest century that they had discovered so far.
Time-travelling was the best hobby they could have ever developed.
Cass had theorised that the power had been within them all along, rather than developed, that even from a young age they had possessed it. Her theory explained why they had always been obsessed with history when growing up, and what would happen in the future.
Well, Cass had been. Carrie was more of a dreamer, head in the clouds type of girl and the opposite of her academic twin.
Both tall with blonde hair down to their waists, the twins attracted attention from almost everywhere (or technically every when) they went.
They originated from Canada, and were both born on the 4th January, 1901. Their father had been in the army ever since they were born and so they never knew him, travelling back to 1918 eventually and finding out that he had died in the war in 1915. Before ever finding out that her husband had died, their Mother, Elizabeth, killed herself out of grief, not that the twins knew it at the time - because they weren't there. That was around the time they were 13 or 14 and had already discovered their ability, and were having a lot of fun, not knowing that because they weren't in their own time back in Canada, they were classed as 'missing' and as they couldn't work out how to get back (they were stuck in the 21st century), their mother assumed they were dead and committed suicide.
At the age of 13, it had been a revelation, an instant decision to go somewhere - but where? "100 years from now, to see what the world is like," Cass had suggested, and Carrie went along with it accordingly.
They had developed a fondness for the 21st century, because while they were stuck there, they had been taken in by a kind lady called Mrs Potts who had been an amazing stand-in mother. As they managed to get used to the way things worked in this world, she sent them back to school where they collected a couple of good friends that they still checked every now and then - to see how they were getting on with their lives.
Attachments were a huge problem. Eventually, they'd always have to move on so all the friends they made, even Mrs Potts, were going to have to be left behind.
They came back here a lot more than probably was necessary because the world wasn't as messed up as it would be...anyways, Project Blackwing.
Both the girls had heard it, and both of them were intrigued, which was why they headed straight to a computer in a public library and looked it up.
No results.
One of the habits Cass had picked up over her time spent on the computer was hacking, and hacking was quite clearly going to help here. Beginning with the FBI, she started to hack into their hidden websites to search for whatever it was.
And then, as she repeated it with the CIA private files, a file came up entitled with the two words they were looking for - "Project Blackwing"
