[And Laura doesn't push. The 'yes' is good enough for her.]
You know, I know someone that happened to. Several someones, actually. A
whole team, plucked out of their own time and brought to the future -- my
present -- so that they could see what their future selves had done to the
world that they lived in, and make different choices when they went back.
Their presence in my time caused a paradox that meant that not only
could they never return, but some of those ... alternate choices ...
resulted in reality fraying at the edges a little bit. There were demons.
They also did not listen to themselves. I ... don't think that anyone does.
It's easy to think that your own present self is the real one, and the only
one to be trusted with the choices that you have to make for yourself. I'm
sure if I went back to my own past and told myself not to do some of the
things that I did, I wouldn't listen to myself either. And it's ...
[A pause, as she considers.]
I used to be an assassin. And, briefly, a prostitute. In both cases, I
didn't know ... that there were other options. I would have called
my future self a liar.
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Date: 2019-02-02 04:47 am (UTC)[And Laura doesn't push. The 'yes' is good enough for her.]
You know, I know someone that happened to. Several someones, actually. A whole team, plucked out of their own time and brought to the future -- my present -- so that they could see what their future selves had done to the world that they lived in, and make different choices when they went back. Their presence in my time caused a paradox that meant that not only could they never return, but some of those ... alternate choices ... resulted in reality fraying at the edges a little bit. There were demons.
They also did not listen to themselves. I ... don't think that anyone does. It's easy to think that your own present self is the real one, and the only one to be trusted with the choices that you have to make for yourself. I'm sure if I went back to my own past and told myself not to do some of the things that I did, I wouldn't listen to myself either. And it's ...
[A pause, as she considers.]
I used to be an assassin. And, briefly, a prostitute. In both cases, I didn't know ... that there were other options. I would have called my future self a liar.