[ Pyra well knows the sort of future she wants to avoid - they'd glimpsed that possibility together, after all. She was no stranger to the fact that others had slipped forward in time here, and such a thing had happened in the last place she had been.

Every reason to worry, with such reminders at every turn. ]

It is.

[ Because it was terrifying, and there was no way to hide that emotion. Powerful though she may have been it was always at the whim of another, known or not. ]

I will not let it - cloud. But there is so much that could slip away. People have been vanishing and slipping forward in this world as long as we have been here. If that were to ever happen, I would no longer be who I am now. You know this.