The Extremely Happy Time Machine

Previously

…The machine, usually so responsive, was giving off a faint, anxious whirring. The golden crystal inside was flickering erratically. “That’s peculiar,” he muttered, tapping the side of the teapot. “The machine seems to be having trouble… stabilizing. It’s as if… as if it’s detecting an anomaly in the happiness levels.” Lily looked from the grumpy knight to her uncle, a dawning realization in her eyes. The machine was designed to travel to extremely happy times. And this knight, with his monumental grumpiness, was decidedly not extremely happy. Could his unhappiness be… blocking their way home? The adventure, it seemed, had just taken a rather unexpected, and potentially grumpy, turn.