[anon, locked from Lina and Gourry]

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

How many people here have run into other members who are from their world, but in the past? I know I'm not the only one it's happened to.

Has anyone ever felt the urge to tell them about what's going to happen? Or to try to get to their timeline and prevent something that happened there?

((OOC: Feel free to call him out should he decide to fail at anon, since I've decided to be nice for once and let this actually lock :P))

Comments

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

I haven't had this experience dear, but some things do need to happen how they happen. If things have come through in your timeline, what right do you have to affect the choices made in another?

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I think I see a way that could prevent a lot of the suffering in my timeline. It involves something that the people involved will have no way of doing until it's far too late.

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

But at what cost my dear? There may have been suffering, but what was gained from it? What choices were made, what people were forged or changed in it all?

Can you see how these events impacted all of the world?

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I can see that one of the world's greatest cities was razed by a demented sorcerer because of the events unfolding here, leaving only one young girl as a survivor. I can see that the world was nearly destroyed thrice - each time only averted with a phenomenal amount of luck.

I can see that a young man who'd already lost the closest thing he ever had to a father watching his two oldest and closest friends die before his eyes.

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

... And yet, here you are. I won't gainsay you either way dear, as you know much more about the situation than I, but I implore you to look further. Sometimes it takes terrible loss to bring about great change.

((One city's nothing to her Zel. It just has to be worth it.))

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

... I suppose you're right. I just wish there was a way.

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

It's commendable to think it in the first place dear. Your heart's in the right place.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

Thanks. But speaking from experience, my world isn't quite idealistic enough for that to be everything.

[elderfrahma.livejournal.com]

No, not everything but it's a start. Far better a heart in the right place with inaction than one in the wrong acting rashly dear. Too much damage can be done that way.

[unluckychimera.livejournal.com]

I suppose you're right.