In the present timeline
Old Doctor
Now look it here, buster, somehow we broke this timeline, and we’re gonna put it right. Is it complicated? You damn right it is. It’s time travel not rocket science. Different principles. More difficult and mind-bending. Look at the situation we’re in. Causality has broken down or maybe it was broken already, and we’re just beginning to notice. Now we can get all fancy and talk about this and that and multiple string dimensions and so on and so forth, and that won’t make a lick of difference in bringing Gala Connor back into this timeline, so we can finally fix this messy business.
Ten millions years ago in the Trappist-1 system
Gala looked at the gentleman in surprise and something stirred within her. What was she to make of someone who seemed to know her so intimately and claimed that she was an alien being from another time and place.
— litguru (
"Let me show you," he said with a smile.https://t.co/3x4SoSBXmQ@litguru23) August 26, 2022
Later that evening…
"I have memories of that other world," said Gala.
— litguru (
Her friend sighed.
"I know you don't believe me," she continued. "But it's the Goddess' honest truth!"
She looked out the window beyond the glass spires. Her heart yearning for a pair of eyes in a distant place.
Meanwhile, somewhere in time
Dr. Pascal
I know that tomorrow you will not be here, Gala. The bifurcations are rendering faster. By morning, we'll be gone into another dimension. But believe me when I tell you, we have met before. We have laughed, cried, and loved before. In that distant future that is already our past.
Gala Connor
I don’t know what to believe! All this talk of time travel and dimensions, it’s really disconcerting. Now, here you show up with pictures of those horrible creatures you call humans and tell me I’m one of them. I look nothing like those creatures! They don’t even have any wings or antennae!
"I will be just a bleep on your radar," Gala said, turning away from him. "No matter the time and space. It's like we're only bound to meet in flashes, then we forget and have to start all over again, caught in the vortices of our future past."https://t.co/is7GcPL1ss
— litguru (
... and what if he's right? If I'm some alien creature from another time, bound to this plane by some random causal asymmetry...
The lamps flickered in the shadows of the violet plains. Gala marveled at the silver streams that flowed towards the horizon, where the city spires shimmered like jewels beneath the red sun. Dancing, she followed the procession towards the ritual grounds.https://t.co/dkh2fnsaip
— litguru (
In a timespace far far away…
The Seer
Makes no sense, does it? No need to worry. It’s all under control. The machinery of time is in motion and well oiled, believe you me. Every hour, minute, second, nanosecond, ad infinitum has been accounted for in the ledgers. For now, you can sit back, relax and enjoy. In time, all these fragments will come together like a beautiful tapestry. Then you will be amazed, and you will rejoice in the knowledge that everything is perfect just the way it is. And tasty, very very tasty.
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