[ The pegasus's wings flap smoothly, its body gently undulating beneath them. He's quiet for a while. ]
I can't claim to understand how it works, but as far as I can tell, time flows like a great river, with villages along the water. Some upstream, in the past. Some downstream, in the future. People arrive here, plucked from those various villages.
The Xiao Xingchen you met just now, came here from an upstream village. There is another Xiao Xingchen here too, from a downstream village. And your village is the farthest down the river.
For now, don't tell him.
[ He can't say for sure, whether this is the right course of action. But it's his instinct not to sully the pristine brightness of Xiao Xingchen's soul, not until he has to. ]
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I can't claim to understand how it works, but as far as I can tell, time flows like a great river, with villages along the water. Some upstream, in the past. Some downstream, in the future. People arrive here, plucked from those various villages.
The Xiao Xingchen you met just now, came here from an upstream village. There is another Xiao Xingchen here too, from a downstream village. And your village is the farthest down the river.
For now, don't tell him.
[ He can't say for sure, whether this is the right course of action. But it's his instinct not to sully the pristine brightness of Xiao Xingchen's soul, not until he has to. ]