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[nodavinci]

[The camera's pointed away from Tony, showing a vacant lot filled with cracked piping and crumbling timbers, like a construction graveyard. On the edge of the screen, the fieldstone wall leading up to a brightly painted exhaust stack suggests he's somewhere in the industrial district - and those who've had occasion to visit his workshop might recognize the glasswork building across the street from where he'd set up.]

Is it just me, or was there a building here this morning?

[The answer here is 'yes, a thriving warehouse' - or, if not that morning, as recent as anyone's last visit to the area.]

Comments

[nodavinci]

Doesn't change the fact that it had the same effect on people's loyalties. Assuming your friend's wife isn't just fickle and there really is something weird going on with her, either someone introduced a traumatic daffodil incident to her history, or someone tampered with her preferences.

Or altered her husband's memory. Is their last name Connor?

[infourbooks]

No, it's not.

[Now that he's really processing it... there are the stories they all heard when they were small]

Terrible things happen to wizards who meddle with time.

[But doing it to take extra classes is okay JUST DON'T ASK]

[nodavinci]

Yeah, temporal paradox is a pretty constant threat in any hypothetical featuring time travel. Best case, you create infinite splinter timelines. Worst case, you erase yourself from existence.

Anyone messing with it would have to be desperate or crazy. Possibly both.

[infourbooks]

Worst case would be a lot more than just yourself wouldn't it?

[nodavinci]

Technically. But if you're not around to see it, it's not any worse on a personal scale.

[infourbooks]

Still, for the world as a whole...

[nodavinci]

Anyone who's willing to disappear people isn't someone who cares about the world as a whole. It's all personal for this guy. As long as he gets what he wants, the collateral damage doesn't matter.

[infourbooks]

Maybe those terrible things already happened and he's gone mad.

[nodavinci]

Cool motive. Doesn't excuse anything.

[infourbooks]

Well no.

[That should be obvious]