Post MoM AU, general post

[use_everything]

And then one day, it was over.

The memory of how it happened was hazy. Perhaps it was as simple as being ported out, perhaps there was a great experiment, bringing together physicists, chemists, alchemists and scientists to get something WORKING. But like the memories of that time, that other dimension, singular events come and go, like a dream, or an age past.

From the very start, however, there were changes.

Comments

[rathercommon]

Well, yeah. But that'd just mean that some other poor witch would come to a bad end.

[dendarii]

Hmm. Well, then I suppose we'll have to be just us instead. As we are now.

[rathercommon]

Too right. So who should I maul for you first?

[dendarii]

Don't tempt me. I might actually give you a list.

[ He brightens, though, thinking of something else. ]

You should meet Bothari.

[rathercommon]

Your bodyguard?

[ Um. ]

I thought he...?

[dendarii]

No. [ Said just a little bit breathlessly, his eyes bright. ] Da warned him about what was going to happen. And - he was still hurt badly, but he didn't die.

[rathercommon]

Oh.

[ Huh. ]

And that didn't - erm - make a time paradox or something?

[dendarii]

[ Miles shakes his head. ]

More like two timelines. Gives me crazy headaches sometimes trying to differentiate them, but that's the worst of it. And exposing my powers is really the most dangerous part of this whole thing, which would have happened even without time travel.

[rathercommon]

Dangerous? What, 'cause then you'd seem like a witch?

[dendarii]

Witch, Cetagandan, mutated ... Very, very bad for the stability of Barrayar.