voice

[anklets]

[This query brought to you by a pretty handful of missing puzzle pieces, not that you'd know, since Lenalee has no intent to justify or explain that imagery, nor to keep picking at scabs until they fester.]

We've already seen how the smallest change made can rewrite the entire history of this world. People are unborn, warheads are undropped... because we've cut out the circumstances which led to their happening.

How do you think that it might be the same for us? Transports come and go so often here and no one knows why. Whatever we do, we are always altering chances, there is no reason not to consider they could also be our own. That someone arrived on a day no longer existing may suddenly leave, or return by new circumstance, or forget they were ever here before.

It may be that we don't "go home", just. "Never arrive".

[ about ten minutes after broadcast, through careful squinting and experimentation, the feed is locked from Gilbert Nightray ]

Comments

[anklets]

[Memories which shall be forgotten, in due time, as though they had never been made. It is her reason to cherish them as dragon's gold.]

It's nothing.

[ aha. ]

Kaneis... do you really think it's possible? To influence this world using the Transporter, without being influenced back?

[wilder]

[Not...entirely convinced, but okay sure he'll roll with it]

Hm?

Well...that depends, what do you mean by influence?

[anklets]

That... what we do ripples outward, like water... eventually reaches things we hadn't thought would be reached. The boat still rocks.

[ siiiigh ]

The more I think about time-travel, the less sense it makes.

[wilder]

That's because we're not supposed to travel time. Humans live in the linear, so it's hard for us to grasp it.

And for you're wondering....I don't know. One can't predict what effects any action has. Even when you're action is inaction.

[anklets]

Somehow, it's reassuring to hear someone say that.

[wilder]

That there's so much out of a person's control through no fault of their own?

I...find that to be so, yeah. [And it's sincere too.]

[anklets]

I've always known that there is no full control we could take over anything. It's just how life is. But sometimes... I guess I felt that maybe if I pushed myself enough, just a bit harder, I could wrest a little more from the world.