2.5: You Are Cordially Beknighted
Euryleia internalized her frustrations with MerLN and hoped, not for the first time, she was not as obtuse as her digital "kin" could be. She pinged him, to interrupt the lecture for a moment, putting her attention on Gwydion and Iliza, "If it helps at all, the theoretical model MerLN seems to be referring to, suggests that nothing you do now can change the events that lead these individuals to travel back in time. As that event has now already happened, therefore, the fact that they will do so in the future must happen. A closed loop, or time-like curve if you prefer". Euryleia's silver eyes flick to Iliza, then back to Gwydion with an apologetic sort of smile and tilt of her head, "So, as Iliza said, you still can't fix everything and it's not entirely your fault."
Brun felt the push and pull lessening as he tried to calm down and steady himself through the anchor of his Lady. Catching Euryleia's repetition, he started to give a wan, tired chuckle.... Then stopped at a thought, "But.... If the events that lead to them travelling back /must/ happen, then it can't be that they were sent to stop something. Because they couldn't. Because they didn't...". He tried to focus...to think it through... He would apparently be responsible for sending them, so if the past was fixed and he knew that, why send them... Brainstorming, he suggested, "To get something? Like Clarent? But why attack at all.... But they didn't draw blood... Oh! I saw that but you didn't... The wounds are wrong, but left particles. Like a mark. But not Gwydion's.... But the blade didn't do it..."
As Brun spoke, Euryleia rewound the visual recording again to highlight the blade after striking Gwydion for everyone to see...
Brun's thoughts barreled on, " So if they were getting something and marking things.... They'd need to get back... And the Wyrmgates do basically send us into the future, in a way.... They might need the Wyrmgates to travel back? Or maybe they used it to travel here in the first place?". Brun was beginning to lose track of himself and his thoughts again. Euryleia could tell and hugged him again gently, but spoke up, "MerLN, I apologize for the interruption.... You were saying about the gates?"
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 18:55, Wed 13 Mar.