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hermajestysfury) wrote2008-04-23 05:58 pm
hermajestysfury) wrote2008-04-23 05:58 pm
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Milliways: Introspection
The moon hung too low in the sky, and throbbed. Perhaps it had only been in his imagination that the wrongly shaped moon throbbed, but that is what he recalls. He feels old. He is old, of course, but he feels old right now. Old, tired, and broken down. He failed his queen, he may have failed his world. Worse than that, though, he may have unmade his world into a place where the moon hangs too low and the streets are wrong.
Into Hell.
No wind, no clouds, no stars, no anything. The only difference between that and the Hell they speak about in churches is the lack of fire, and he is certain that it would have been less alien if there had been fire; which means that the lack of fire makes sense.
Except that none of it makes sense, and he does not wish for it to make sense, because if it makes sense...if he can wrap his head around it, then he has to face the other side of the equation. "And if you were successful, and one person was causing a time paradox, it's possible that the events you faced were undone or unfolded differently. Time is far more fragile that it would seem."
That world was wrong, and Sir Nicholas may have undone everything. Not saved the world, not saved his friends and country and species, but unmade them.
He is not an introspective man, but there is little do do here other than think, and brood, and wonder.
Failing the queen was bad enough. Did he, too, fail everything else?
Into Hell.
No wind, no clouds, no stars, no anything. The only difference between that and the Hell they speak about in churches is the lack of fire, and he is certain that it would have been less alien if there had been fire; which means that the lack of fire makes sense.
Except that none of it makes sense, and he does not wish for it to make sense, because if it makes sense...if he can wrap his head around it, then he has to face the other side of the equation. "And if you were successful, and one person was causing a time paradox, it's possible that the events you faced were undone or unfolded differently. Time is far more fragile that it would seem."
That world was wrong, and Sir Nicholas may have undone everything. Not saved the world, not saved his friends and country and species, but unmade them.
He is not an introspective man, but there is little do do here other than think, and brood, and wonder.
Failing the queen was bad enough. Did he, too, fail everything else?