frogzoned | PC: LIBBY

Wait - are you serious?

[pausing for a few seconds, thinking.]

How did it work? The similar magic you encountered. Where I'm from, it's - there are some things that can't be reversed. Or at least, we haven't found a way yet. Entropy, the flow of time - you might be able to pause them, but you can't wind them back.

[sounding pretty fascinated! nerd]

I think maybe the problem is that I don't understand how it works, exactly. Just that we very much need to stop it, because as you said, there are some things that simply can't be reversed.

But this is the power to rewrite everything. Everyone's stories. Or simply erase them. Be done with it. Some think simple oblivion is better than living the same story over and over.

Your story? Do you mean, like... If you didn't like the way your life was going, where you're from, there's a way to change it?

Maybe. That's ... the hope, perhaps. Maybe it is a foolish thing to want, and destiny will have its way with you no matter how hard you fight.

[ depressing? ]

As you said. Entropy.

[toying with her sleeve a little, absentmindedly.]

Do you really believe that?

[ well, he'd continue being a bit of a sadsack about it, but he does actually notice her starting to get fidgety and pauses. ]

... I'm not sure. [ ... ] I think I am trying to believe otherwise?

[she doesn't seem to even be aware of it herself, so maybe she's just naturally fidgety.]

Well - whether you believe it or not, I hope it works out for you. Everyone's got something they'd like to change about their life, right?