[ Before she elaborates, she nods to acknowledge he's aiming at staying for good, with the family he's built here. ]
I know of others who wish to do the same. Honestly, knowing there's another war on the horizon for me when I leave here; perhaps if Jamie and Bree arrived, or others from the family...maybe it would be safer for all of us.
[ God knows she's gone through more trauma in her time than in this world. That includes the rifts and needing emergency medical healing, includes the oddities of the Singularity, and having to learn magic (or at least be aware of how it all works). Maybe it would be better for everyone to come to her. It's something she does ponder from time to time, in any case, because when it is bad, it can be particularly dangerous. ]
What I hope is that we all have more of a say in our leaving than we did in our arrivals.
[ Whether someone wants to choose to stay or leave, the planet has its own low-simmering tension, and she's been quietly hoping she isn't around when it comes to a boil, if it ever does. ]
As for me, I was born two hundred years in my husband's future. The portal sent me back in time instead of to another place, but I didn't know what it was at the time, had no clue. I stayed after meeting Jamie, I chose to, but that was before war was inevitable. Being from his future, I knew what would happen. The short of it, is they were out-weaponed. I knew his clan would be wiped out of existence within a half-hour.
[ She knows the obvious next question, what it would be if it were her listening: why not take Jamie back through the portal? So she answers it preemptively. ]
I tried to take him back to my time, but he couldn't get through the portal. Like a locked doorway, for him.
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[ Before she elaborates, she nods to acknowledge he's aiming at staying for good, with the family he's built here. ]
I know of others who wish to do the same. Honestly, knowing there's another war on the horizon for me when I leave here; perhaps if Jamie and Bree arrived, or others from the family...maybe it would be safer for all of us.
[ God knows she's gone through more trauma in her time than in this world. That includes the rifts and needing emergency medical healing, includes the oddities of the Singularity, and having to learn magic (or at least be aware of how it all works). Maybe it would be better for everyone to come to her. It's something she does ponder from time to time, in any case, because when it is bad, it can be particularly dangerous. ]
What I hope is that we all have more of a say in our leaving than we did in our arrivals.
[ Whether someone wants to choose to stay or leave, the planet has its own low-simmering tension, and she's been quietly hoping she isn't around when it comes to a boil, if it ever does. ]
As for me, I was born two hundred years in my husband's future. The portal sent me back in time instead of to another place, but I didn't know what it was at the time, had no clue. I stayed after meeting Jamie, I chose to, but that was before war was inevitable. Being from his future, I knew what would happen. The short of it, is they were out-weaponed. I knew his clan would be wiped out of existence within a half-hour.
[ She knows the obvious next question, what it would be if it were her listening: why not take Jamie back through the portal? So she answers it preemptively. ]
I tried to take him back to my time, but he couldn't get through the portal. Like a locked doorway, for him.