[ Jim smiles a little, if only because Kirigan seems to find some amusement in that thought. He doesn't look so miserable now, and while that may just be a facade, it's still something. At least they're somewhat comfortable here, warm and not starving. And just as importantly, not alone. ]
I know that multidimensional travel is possible, [ He corrects. It's going to be a tough one to explain, but he goes on to try. ]
In the year 2387, two ships were engulfed by a black hole and traveled back in time. One emerged on the day of my birth, in 2233. The second, a smaller vessel piloted by a man I came to know, emerged twenty years later. Through a set of weird circumstances, I met this man on a planet we were both marooned on. He used his unique telepathic abilities to link our minds and show me how he ended up in my time, but in the process he showed me a lot more about his world, his whole life, all the things he'd lived through with... well, with me. Another version of me.
So he showed me that more than once, they did encounter evidence of parallel realities, and even met people from these alternate universes that had managed to make that trip. I guess in a way, you could say I come from one of those parallel realities now, too. Because when those ships traveled back in time, they changed the course of history and thus my timeline diverged from that original one, starting on the day I was born.
[ He lets all that sink in, waiting. Kirigan's bright, but it's still a lot, and he wonders if he'll manage to understand it all. ]
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I know that multidimensional travel is possible, [ He corrects. It's going to be a tough one to explain, but he goes on to try. ]
In the year 2387, two ships were engulfed by a black hole and traveled back in time. One emerged on the day of my birth, in 2233. The second, a smaller vessel piloted by a man I came to know, emerged twenty years later. Through a set of weird circumstances, I met this man on a planet we were both marooned on. He used his unique telepathic abilities to link our minds and show me how he ended up in my time, but in the process he showed me a lot more about his world, his whole life, all the things he'd lived through with... well, with me. Another version of me.
So he showed me that more than once, they did encounter evidence of parallel realities, and even met people from these alternate universes that had managed to make that trip. I guess in a way, you could say I come from one of those parallel realities now, too. Because when those ships traveled back in time, they changed the course of history and thus my timeline diverged from that original one, starting on the day I was born.
[ He lets all that sink in, waiting. Kirigan's bright, but it's still a lot, and he wonders if he'll manage to understand it all. ]