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Thu 24th Aug 2023 11:25

Maybe Never Never Was?

by Barnabas Lord Stonebriar

As we travel through the time stream, each of my companions was faced with an event. Some from the past, some from the future. Some even from anywhen? possibly. They were each faced with choices and each changed something about the world, the multiverse and even events from our own personal past. I am now flooded with memories that are mine. Aren't mine. Time has become a weird soup that lives in my head. Rerae is/was bound and unbound again. Barg has seen the future of his people without honor. Mavinda was faced with a twisted and incomplete result of prophecy. Shard faced themselves in a time when they were "more" themself/selves. Itophi is alive. That is a snarled yarn of a problem for another group of heroes though. And Never...was faced with the hardest choice of all. I could only stand there paralyzed as she changed all of our times and lives. For better or worse, the course of history in this cycle has been altered. I fear we may never know the extent of the Butterfly Effect that she caused. I do not know if I could have made a different choice or taken her family away from her again by stopping her. But is she still her? Is she still Never? Or was never Never now? Everything is all timey wimey and wibbly wobbly. Is our nature and character fundamental? Or do our choices and experiences define us? I hope Never is always Never and never not Never.
 
I was not given a choice. But certain knowledge. I am the key. I will know the way to the Mobius of Motive. When the time is right. So I guess right now I was given nothing. Well not nothing. I was given hope. I guess for now, for the Unbound, at this time, while out of time, for them...I am the Guide.

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