Chapter 8, Time Waits for No Man; Chapter 9, Eradications Anonymous; Chapter 10, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle Summary

In search of her father, Thursday goes to the ChronoGuard in Chapter 8. She observes as the room changes rapidly as if a time-lapse video and notices that one detail remains constant: a desk with an old-fashioned stick telephone on it. She lifts the receiver and hears a recorded message with multiple choices. She selects the last one that puts her in contact with an operative, and her father immediately appears in the room. They have a conversation about what he had been doing that is very confused due to all the time travel. He then tells her that to avoid Armageddon, she must make sure that Swindon wins the SuperHoop croquet championship. This will not be easy because the Swindon team...