A bunch of malarkey

Things have been a bit odd around here lately - I wouldn't say that I've got writers block, but I can tell you all that the story has come to a crossroads. Zuriel and Tarlin are preparing for a journey, an important one at that, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get them started. My mind has thus decided that the journey is irrelevant and that it should instead focus on Loki. If I was any other writer, this would be a normal situation (apparently quite a few authors write bits and pieces here and there and then fill in the blanks), but for me its a quasi apocalypse. I'm a big fan of following the timeline and I begin to feel a bit unsettled whenever I have to venture of the beaten path - It's like I've gone time traveling and my return to the present is up in the air. A vast cornucopia of movies have illustrated the sticky situations that this time traveling business can bring and I must say, it's quite intimidating! Hopefully, I won't have to reverse engineer a stainless steel car to run on train tracks to make it back to the present... but I digress. To me, this skipping around in the story is a bunch of malarkey, but it would seem that, at present, malarkey is what I've got to work with.