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[Vash wakes up in the morning and eventually rolls himself out of bed. He dresses in whatever is on hand and clean. Today it's a pair of brown slacks and a white button up long sleeved shirt. His hair he pulls back into a pony tail before leaving his quiet and empty apartment.

The rest of the day is spent looking over the journal, a bit of people watching in the square, and then lunch at Seventh Heaven where he's careful to order nothing that could be considered a baked good. Thanks once again Malnosso for that new allergy. Then the day is ended once he enters Good Spirits and stays until he's drunk to the point that he feels numb enough that he can go home, sleep and start it all over again.

That has been his daily routine for nearly a month now. He use to sometimes stop to make sure the Flower Shop had enough help, but it seemed they had enough new people now to care for the place without him and he didn't have much interest now anyway. Once or twice he enters the woods and tries to make contact with Faeren once again, but for some reason that spirit has just gone quiet on him.

Today after a long day of nothing he's sitting at the bar with a bottle of Wild Turkey next to him that he's working on. He's looking over Katie's last message to Wolfwood. Apparently it was about him in some way, not that he could figure out the meaning behind it. He gives up on it for now instead to ask a question that he's been curious about.]

So, according to the Malnosso they're trying to find a way home for everyone. Say for just a second that is what they're doing and they managed to do it. Not only that, but you can pick when you could go home with your memories. Would you choose to go back and change something you did? Or are you afraid that what you did could change things too much?

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[Neat, precise writing follows, easy to read though it leans more towards cursive than print.]

Time travel is a tricky thing. How do we know what we alter in the past will make for a better future? What if in our bumbling certainty that we can make a difference, we tragically make things far worse?

There are no actions that I have taken that I regret enough to wish to undo them. I have many regrets, enough to fill a thousand lifetimes, but each was a lesson I cherish deeply. Each led me to something I needed.

Even then, should these Malnosso choose to give me the opportunity to return to any place, at any time, I would do my very best to alter history. It's worth the risk, don't you think, if countless lives could be saved in the attempt? It is better to try and fail, then do nothing and succeed at doing nothing. In my hands I hold the record of three decades of natural disasters and wars. Most everyone could say the same. Armed with that knowledge, how many might be saved?

[Vash, however, is too lazy to write.]

So you wouldn't change something you did, but you would try to stop natural disasters or at least warn people of them?

[Just making sure he has that straight.]

[Still neat script. It seems the vocal response isn't a problem!]

If anything I did was on par with such a thing as a natural disaster, then perhaps I would wish to change my own actions! As it is, my home nation was ruined in such a catastrophe, had I the means to do so I would certainly try to save them. If I could save them, then why not try to save others too?

Yeah, I suppose not many people are the cause of something as big as a natural disaster. [Himself not included.] You wouldn't be worried that something from your home nation would be the cause of some other war or something?

(ooc: argghh I didn't change the subject tag of my last one baw sorry)

North Ambria has never been a particularly violent nation! I believe it would be worth the risk; while I cannot predict the future, I well know the past. At the least, there would be the chance for as much goodness as harm. Left as it is, there is only harm, isn't there? I'm sorry if it's not the answer you're looking for.

Time travel doesn't exist in my world, which spares me from considering this as anything more than a philosophical point to ponder. But if it does exist in your world, or the Malnosso would grant you the power to also save lives, even if it is only in the spreading of warnings, isn't it best to give it all you can?

[OOC: Don't worry! I'll do it a lot later on I'm sure!]

I'm not really looking for any specific answer. Just wondering in general as far as I know doesn't exist in my world either.

I see.

I've found the sort of person who wonders these things have a great many more regrets than I do. Would you change things, if you had the power and the time? Tweak the past in the hopes for a brighter future?

[It's quiet for a bit. How to answer this honestly without too many follow up questions.]

It's just something I've been thinking about lately. There's a couple thing I think I would change.

I think we all wonder on such a thing now and again. So long as it doesn't become an obsession, it's harmless to think over. Perhaps a less troubling question might be, if you could be put at any point at all in history, not just your own lifespan, would you still choose your own time and your own space?

If I had a choice? I wouldn't leave anyone to live on my home planet, it's kind of a dump.

Tempting as it would be, I'd remind myself first that I'm not god--not the one I grew up being taught about, and not any other god either. The universe has its own mechanisms; me messing with them on the scale you're talking about could definitely have the potential to make the outcomes and consequences a lot worse than they were originally, even if I think I'm doing the right thing at the time.

There's an old theory in my world, the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world can ultimately cause a destructive storm in another. I always came away from that with the message of 'Whatever you do may feel right, but the chain effect from what you've done may end badly...very badly...somewhere else.

There's also the Law of Relativity: every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction. So there will be responses to what you've done; a lot of them won't be any better than the things you changed to prevent.

And last, well, my world plays with the idea a lot in entertainment, and they always make the assumption that the person messing around is still there in the new reality, and still aware of what they've done. That's...a pretty big assumption to make. Not only that, but why would he or she remember in the first place if they'd just undone everything that got them to the point of deciding to mess with those things in the first place? If all those events that led up to that moment no longer exist...why would that person even be aware of the need to do it? Does that even mean you saved your version of that world, or that you just caused a branch off of reality where one keeps going the way you remember, and the new version goes on with the changes you made.

[Yes, Vash, he thinks way too much on things like this sometimes]

Some other world, then! There seems to be plenty to pick from, which one?

I don't want to go back at all.

...Wouldn't change a thing.

No? Is it because you've had a very good life, or are you afraid of the things it would change if you don't mind me asking?

Also a good choice I didn't think to put up there. Although if you had to go back, would you try to change anything?

[He's just a little drunk, and not thinking just how much of a loaded question that can really be for someone who doesn't want to go back home.]

I don't know. I never really gave it much thought. If I could move all of the people off Gunsmoke I think I'd choose something with a little less sun and sand that's for sure.

[That was a lot more detailed then Vash was expecting and he's well on his way to being buzzed so it takes him a couple re-reads to get it all into his head. Eventually there's a voice response as he doesn't have a pen on him in the bar.]

I don't know, I guess I was assuming the memory thing would stick thanks to the Malnosso meddling. And I have to admit that I'd hate to live on that world that butterfly was destroying. Earth had a lot of butterflies flying around and a lot of flapping going on. [He did say 'had'. Also he is a little drunk. Maybe just just misspoke.]

[Derek: (usually) relatively taciturn in verbal exchanges...frighteningly verbose on paper. Sorry, dude. He will realize that Vash sounds pretty damn drunk, though, and turn on the microphone.]

It's part of the theory that's used to illustrate the point. It's not the whole chain of theorized events, though. Just the start of it.

It might make sense later.

Earth, huh?

It doesn't need to make sense I suppose. Just a bit of random thinking and daydreaming. [Because if he could have changed that one action, how much better would things have been? Something he's been rolling over in his head lately.]

Yeah, Earth. A lot of people seem to be from there. Are you not?

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I am. From around two thousand A.D. United States. Dunno if that means anything to you, though. Seems to be a decent amount of variation on the theme around here.

Two thousand A.D, huh? [His mind automatically flashes up some of the old images on the computer that Joey had used to teach him and Knives of the planet Earth.]

Not a whole lot I'm afraid. I'm from the Planet Gunsmoke. [He could say how even the people on Gunsmoke who weren't over a hundred years old had heard of the mystical Earth. Where there were trees and such, but that's talking too much of his past that he doesn't want to get into right now.]

Gunsmoke?

...That's actually the name of a TV series I used to watch when I grew up. An old western. Interesting.

Really? An old western? Because you could almost consider Gunsmoke an old western planet some days.

Huh. I'd say maybe that was intentional...but...unless your ancestors settled from Earth.

Maybe it's a coincidence.

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