Blogtober 2022 Day 24 entry
“What about sailing away?” Eila asked. “Have you ever been to other lands?”
“There are no other lands for us,” Adriana said. “No matter which direction we sail, we end up back on this island.”
“No wonder your people never considered the Past Paradox,” Wynn said. “The knowledge that you’re all prisoners here would collapse your society.”
“It’s loathsome to think about,” Adriana said. “To consider that all you’ve believed isn’t true.”
“What do we do now?” Eila said.
“Can you get us into the portal chamber, just the three of us?” Wynn asked.
“What good will that do?” Adriana replied.
“I have an idea,” Wynn said. “The Past Paradox always occurs because the traveler loses his memory of the future. Any attempt to change this has failed. Messages, spells, implanted memories, none of them have ever made the jump through time.”
“Why not?” Eila asked.
“Because none of them had happened yet,” Wynn said.
“What’s your idea?” Adriana asked.
“We don’t have to send our whole crew through the portal, only the captain,” Wynn said. “If we pick a point before we sailed into the storm and disrupt the timeline somehow, we will miss the portal, and the rest of us here will disappear, returning to our own world.”
“How can you do what you said has never been done?” Adriana asked.
“Someone else has to go with her,” Wynn said. “Someone who is not supposed to be on our ship whose presence compels us to change course.”
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