Izutsumi mentioned you have time powers. That being the case, have they given you any insight into what's happening currently, and what can be done to fix it?
I do, yes, though I must tell you I am relatively inexperienced in them. I only discovered my powers a few months ago.
As for insight, I've been wondering about the situation myself. Ever since I was changed back into my younger self. The way I use time power does not result in the same effects.
Would it be safe to try a few experiments using your powers? I don't want you to do anything that might put you at harm, so please don't feel pressured to take unnecessary risks, but maybe there's something you can learn.
It's possible, but we need to consider the nature of what's actually occurring here.
I can use my power to move objects through time. The way it was explained to me by the person who taught me, is that it's bringing out the memory of the object. There is more to it than that but in essence this is how it works for me.
What I have seen and experienced in Somnius however seems like a different manipulation of time. Tell me, how would you describe the effects you have seen yourself so far?
They look more like tears in reality, that send people back in time. Or bring people and creatures here that shouldn't be.
Given the way your powers work, would it be possible you could use the memory of something -- or someone -- to send them back to where they're supposed to be?
Yes. It's a little similar to what was happening with those games last month, only much more serious.
Maybe, but I don't know for certain. The only time I've affected a person was myself - and that was an accident. It didn't change me, only sent me backwards in time. And I haven't been able to reverse that.
[It's important that Kabru knows her only experience moving a person back through time was a huge mistake, and unfixed. Some experiments may be too dangerous to think about.]
[It sounds like she has about as much control over it as Mithrun's teleportation magic... and it could be just as erratic and dangerous as a consequence, if not moreso. But Mithrun had found a way to weaponise that to his advantage, even with the risks, so...]
Maybe you just need practice with it to understand it better, like any magic? Normally I'd say it isn't worth the risk, but given the stakes here, we should consider all the possibilities at our disposal.
[Kabru does not want to know the advantage Zelda found after being yeeted into the distant past.]
Of course. We must also remember we likely don't know what all of those possibilities might be.
I agree that there's likely something to be gained from practice. But I don't think you quite understand the scale of what could go wrong when it comes to time magic. When I say I sent myself back through time accidentally, it was by thousands of years. I doubt that's possible for me here [not without her Secret Stone] but I wouldn't want to put a person at risk just to try and solve what might be a temporary memory lapse, or return to their younger self.
But I have been thinking about something. The large crystal cracked, didn't it? And that's when these problems started. When I use my power on an object, I am asking it to return to where it once was. Like a memory.
So I wonder if the crystal starting to crack is somehow bringing out its memory of this place.
If the crystal itself has some power over time, it would make sense for things to go wrong if it becomes unstable.
I have asked the crystal before for an object from home that exists in my original time, even though the time I was in was thousands of years before it was ever made. I got that object. So it must form part of its magic.
It might be that this world was unstable to begin with. I mean, it brings us all from all manner of realms, and there's someone from my world who claims things about me that I've said and done that they have no business of knowing yet... as if she's from the future. I don't have any reason to believe they're lying.
So in that sense, the crystal only makes things even more dangerous.
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As for insight, I've been wondering about the situation myself. Ever since I was changed back into my younger self. The way I use time power does not result in the same effects.
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I can use my power to move objects through time. The way it was explained to me by the person who taught me, is that it's bringing out the memory of the object. There is more to it than that but in essence this is how it works for me.
What I have seen and experienced in Somnius however seems like a different manipulation of time. Tell me, how would you describe the effects you have seen yourself so far?
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Given the way your powers work, would it be possible you could use the memory of something -- or someone -- to send them back to where they're supposed to be?
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Maybe, but I don't know for certain. The only time I've affected a person was myself - and that was an accident. It didn't change me, only sent me backwards in time. And I haven't been able to reverse that.
[It's important that Kabru knows her only experience moving a person back through time was a huge mistake, and unfixed. Some experiments may be too dangerous to think about.]
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Maybe you just need practice with it to understand it better, like any magic? Normally I'd say it isn't worth the risk, but given the stakes here, we should consider all the possibilities at our disposal.
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Of course. We must also remember we likely don't know what all of those possibilities might be.
I agree that there's likely something to be gained from practice. But I don't think you quite understand the scale of what could go wrong when it comes to time magic. When I say I sent myself back through time accidentally, it was by thousands of years. I doubt that's possible for me here [not without her Secret Stone] but I wouldn't want to put a person at risk just to try and solve what might be a temporary memory lapse, or return to their younger self.
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[why are there so many crazy powerful people here...]
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But I have been thinking about something. The large crystal cracked, didn't it? And that's when these problems started. When I use my power on an object, I am asking it to return to where it once was. Like a memory.
So I wonder if the crystal starting to crack is somehow bringing out its memory of this place.
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I have asked the crystal before for an object from home that exists in my original time, even though the time I was in was thousands of years before it was ever made. I got that object. So it must form part of its magic.
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So in that sense, the crystal only makes things even more dangerous.
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I doubt I can affect it, given the extent of the problem. But I will see if I can learn anything about it up close.
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Oh, and thank you for taking the time to write to me and answer my questions! I really appreciate it.
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I'd like to thank you as well. You've given me a lot to think about.
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