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

[khajidont]

There are a lot of possibilities that only people from certain worlds can think of.

[He saw Rose's answer. It doesn't sound good, but it's also not true where he's from.]

For what it's worth, I buy the parallel worlds theory more than cutting ourselves out in time loops. We're not precise enough for that. But whatever it is that happens, what we do here still matters.

[And that's what really matters here, isn't it?]

[anklets]

of course it matters. we've a world to save.

[khajidont]

Exactly.

Keep on hanging in there. I know this isn't exactly fun to think about.

[anklets]

[ understatement of the century, that ] how are you doing?

[ emphasis on "you", if she'd ever learned how to do that ]