Everything else, he kept to himself, turning over in his thoughts. If he was here, then he must have come here in the past. He was certain of it. There was simply no way that it could have happened in the future, because he didn't have enough of a future to do so. But wasn't he supposed to remember, then? Wouldn't he have recalled being here...?
Perhaps not. Some sort of magic was obviously to blame, and magic did strange things that Bariyan could never hope to understand.
Easier to think of himself as two separate people, then. Himself, and the one who'd come here, the one who might have led a happier life.
"Did I tell you...." Another question that he wasn't sure he ought to ask, though this one had only just occurred to him. "Did I tell you anything about my own family?"
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Everything else, he kept to himself, turning over in his thoughts. If he was here, then he must have come here in the past. He was certain of it. There was simply no way that it could have happened in the future, because he didn't have enough of a future to do so. But wasn't he supposed to remember, then? Wouldn't he have recalled being here...?
Perhaps not. Some sort of magic was obviously to blame, and magic did strange things that Bariyan could never hope to understand.
Easier to think of himself as two separate people, then. Himself, and the one who'd come here, the one who might have led a happier life.
"Did I tell you...." Another question that he wasn't sure he ought to ask, though this one had only just occurred to him. "Did I tell you anything about my own family?"