"Spin, Mabel, spin!"
Mabel looked up at her uncle, and began to spin obediently. She didn't know why she was spinning, but she was only five, and it was fun. The world became a pleasant blur, and she continued.
"Keep going, and don't fall over." instructed Uncle David. "Any moment now, we'll start to spin in the opposite direction and everything will be okay."
"Yes, uncle. I do so want to go home!" replied Mabel.
"Are you ready? You'll be dizzy for a moment, but it's important to go when I say."
"Yes..."
"Okay, I'm going to count down. Three..." A rainbow began to drag from their fingers as they continued their rotations. "Two..." Mabel was beginning to feel very dizzy indeed. "One..." David wasn't doing all that well himself. "Go!"
The man and his little niece stopped and then began to spin in the opposite direction, just as some musketeers blundered into the gardens and looked at them incredulously. The rainbow effect shimmered out in a great wake, as their fingers reached the temporal speed limit and the two spinners vanished.
"C'est imposible!" exclaimed the lead musketeer, a lieutenant.
The journey through the warp was all too brief, and the two voyagers emerged six hundred years later, in the Grand Rotation Complex, at Xavier's Launderette in Las Vegas. David looked down at his niece. "Are you all dry now?"
"Yes, and my clothes are so soft!"
"It's true what they say: You can't beat a good spin cycle!"
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