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huh Is that a C&H reference?
From the end of the chapter:
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What they found was a collection of cardboard boxes.

Kara squinted at her dad. “The time machine… isn’t like the one in Calvin and Hobbes, is it?”

He sighed. “No, it’s not.”
So definitely, a Calvin and Hobbes reference. smile Calvin and Hobbes may have traveled through time in a cardboard box:
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but I don’t think that’ll work for our heroes.

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Tempus had to rear his ugly head sooner or later.
We’ll find out more about what happened in Chapter 47.