The Time Traveller

His heart was beating faster than before, the reality of what he was about to do catching up with him. He swallowed a few times and ran his tongue over his lips, they were dry and chapped and a little bit sore from where he'd been gnawing on them.

Original time travel story I had to write for school.
This is my first time writing anything like this.
1,048 words.

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