This is what I came up with, after stuggling to think of some kind of interesting plot for a few hours. It’s intended to be a sort of interview of a person who somehow ends up on something like ’60 Minutes’ after some kind of long conflict on a planet made up of a race of people who all have the ability to manipulate time. Pretty neat-o if I do say so myself:
“I was a young baby, not much older than a year and half old when it first happened, I skipped through time. As I recall, hazily, as I was very young after all, I jumped in time from 1:33:35 PM to 1:33:37 PM (GMT -8). Perhaps surprisingly to you though, this was an entirely normal event for a child of our world. I was actually late in developing my ability to time travel in this way, most kids are able to do a 2 second jump, and correct for the rotation of the planet by the time they’re about 1 year old. I suppose you could say I was a slow child in that respect if you wanted.
Ah, you think being able to time-travel would cause problems? I suppose you’re right. There is a reason we have an infant mortality rate higher than humans after all. For example, if I tried to jump about in time right now, blindly going places, I might end up with my body strangely inside something else. What ends up happening is called a ‘minor time accident’. Our time travelling mechanism, which I’m not supposed to fully explain, relies to an extent on the creation of a special kind of wormhole. This wormhole, opening on the destination side, pushes everything out of the way. Meaning that if you travel into a wall for example, the wall is going to be literally blown to pieces.
So Naturally there’s some rules governing our time travel. They aren’t written down anywhere, mostly because it would be nearly impossible to enforce them, but practical and common-sense rules, agreed on by a sort of consensus, mostly of people who would prefer to be alive. The most common rule is that you are never, under any circumstances, supposed to travel to a time or place where you’re unsure what might actually be there. Say you travel into a brick wall like we mentioned before? Because of the refactory period associated with out time travel you wouldn’t be able to get out immediately, you would probably be crushed under the weight of the remaining wall falling on top of you.
All this leads up to how I actually got here, I assure you, but there’s much more to explain before that…”