“Where to begin?” Amelia said. “The difficult thing about being in forward time is having to lay everything out in a line.”<\/p>\n
“Did you say ‘forward time’?” Jenny asked.<\/p>\n
“Well, to you it would just be ‘time’. I’ve gotten used to the other way — the way of seeing things all at once, the before and the after. I’m a little out of practice at feeding information through a straw.”<\/p>\n
“That’s ok,” Jenny said. “You can talk about stuff to me in any order. I’ll put the pieces together.”<\/p>\n
“That’s very sweet of you,” Amelia smiled. “Well then, perhaps it would be best to start near the end. We are sitting here on this bed, and we are having a very pleasant conversation. So far so good?”<\/p>\n
“Um, yes,” Jenny said hesitantly. “That’s what we’re doing. I already know that.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, of course you do. But the next part — the part that comes right after that — is more interesting.”<\/p>\n
“And what’s that?” Jenny asked.<\/p>\n
“The part,” said Amelia, “where I tell you that you need to leave now, and not see me again.”<\/p>\n
“Oh,” said Jenny. “I wasn’t expecting that.”<\/p>\n
“Yes my dear, that’s the point. The part you know leads to the part you don’t know. But it’s the part after that<\/i> which is even more interesting.”<\/p>\n
“And what’s that?” Jenny said.<\/p>\n
“The part where if you don’t go away after I tell you to, then you and your friends might not exist any more. And then I shall be very sad.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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