“The problem is,” continued Amelia, “that I am not exactly who you think I am.”<\/p>\n
“I know you’re my grandmother,” Jenny said, “I’ve seen the pictures, and they look exactly like you.”<\/p>\n
“Yes, I’m afraid that’s the problem. Those are very old pictures, and they look exactly like me. I am the same age I was when those pictures were taken, all those years ago.”<\/p>\n
“Why does that make a difference?”<\/p>\n
“Because it means the version of me that exists is the one that has existed outside of time for all these years. I am a young woman who stepped outside of time many years ago. And that’s where I’ve been until here.”<\/p>\n
“Until here?” Jenny was confused.<\/p>\n
“Sorry, I suppose I should have said until now.” Amelia smiled apologetically. “I think of it as `here’, but to you it makes more sense as `now’.”<\/p>\n
“Right,” Jenny said, nodding slowly. “Amazingly enough, I actually understood that. But why couldn’t you come back into time?”<\/p>\n
“Even if I wanted to, I’d need to come back into the place I left. That’s where the door is.”<\/p>\n
“But you are here talking with me now!” Jenny said.<\/p>\n
“We are not exactly `in time’ at the moment,” Amelia explained. “This is a sort of neutral place. It exists only so that you and I can meet and have this conversation.”<\/p>\n
“You mean it’s not now, now?” Jenny asked.<\/p>\n
Amelia thought for a moment. “Something like that. I’m not sure English has any way of expressing it.” She turned to Mr. Symarian. “What do you think?”<\/p>\n
“Considering what you’ve thought of my opinion in the past, I am surprised you think my opinion matters.”<\/p>\n
“In the past<\/i>?” Josh spoke up for the first time. “Mr. Symarian, just how old are you?”<\/p>\n
“Now now,” Amelia said, “that is never an appropriate question.”<\/p>\n
“Yes Josh,” Jenny said with a smile, “Now now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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