[She doesn't know that word, not in either of the languages she speaks. Merwen is quiet for a moment, thinking hard about the implications of different times as well as worlds. This is actually the first time someone's mentioned that to her.]
It's written in our history that many of the worlds that now bear human life, Shora included, were settled by the ancients. The ancients are long since gone, having shared fear and hatred and violence with each other and leaving entire worlds poisoned even now, but Sharers and Valans and the ancients and the people of every world humanity still lives on all descended from one world, once. If you are from that world's past, perhaps I am from that world's future?
[He would be absolutely prehistoric by her standards. Neat. It's more just a passing thought than anything, though, and she shakes her head mildly.]
I'm not sure what, if anything, that implies about the fate of our souls.
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[She doesn't know that word, not in either of the languages she speaks. Merwen is quiet for a moment, thinking hard about the implications of different times as well as worlds. This is actually the first time someone's mentioned that to her.]
It's written in our history that many of the worlds that now bear human life, Shora included, were settled by the ancients. The ancients are long since gone, having shared fear and hatred and violence with each other and leaving entire worlds poisoned even now, but Sharers and Valans and the ancients and the people of every world humanity still lives on all descended from one world, once. If you are from that world's past, perhaps I am from that world's future?
[He would be absolutely prehistoric by her standards. Neat. It's more just a passing thought than anything, though, and she shakes her head mildly.]
I'm not sure what, if anything, that implies about the fate of our souls.