“Well we could try going to the future again.” I offered.

“That might narrow down our next move but what I don’t get is if you went to the future already and asked me what was going to happen then why didn’t I say anything about this?”

“Maybe you had done something different?” Elysif suggested.

“I’m not entirely sure how the whole time travel thing works so it’s a possibility.”

“Well you could give it a try. Elysif and I are going to get Iscarat. While we’re at we need to see if he can get word to the Agency in time. Maybe then we’ll have a fighting chance.”

“Alright.” I said, before holding myself in a meditative position.

“I’m not going anywhere except my bed. I am too worn out from all that to be able to do anything but sleep.” Elysif spouted, as she got up and went out the door and down to her apartment.

“Okay, I guess I am going to Iscarat’s alone then.” he said getting up and also heading out the door.

I had a few moments to focus before dissipating and reforming two weeks in the future. This time no one was there, just me in an empty apartment. I looked around for something, anything that might indicate that they were alive at least.

Underneath a book on the desk was a note. It was covered in rum stains so I assumed it was Scott who wrote it but under closer inspection I realized it was my handwriting. I guess I would have to write this note for myself in the future. It read:

Dear Me from two weeks ago,

I would like to inform you that we succeed. However we are not the ones to defeat the changeling and the Masked one. We tell the Masked one that we will take him back to the time in which the one he wants to save died. He agrees and you stab him in the back before he notices. That’s the plan at least. Elysif is on standby to give you support as your healer and Iscarat will help you with the backstabbing using his magic. As always nothing goes as planned but somehow we succeed nonetheless. I can’t tell you much else since it would alter the timeline just enough to screw us over. This note will still be written though no matter what since you were the one to do it. good luck and watch your head.

“Okay so at least I know we survive and succeed.” I said to myself. It took some weight off my chest but I still didn’t understand how this whole thing worked. I sat down in the same position I was in before and focused on the past. My eyes shut as I imagined the room as it was before. When I opened them I was back. The only reason I could tell was because it was all how it had been left before. Nothing was off.

I got up and walked over to my room and fell over on the bed. It wasn’t all that comfortable but I had grown used to it so I fell right asleep. My dreams brought me once again to the world of stars. Tim was laying on what I assumed was a giant bean bag chair all sprawled out. The child-like body was so small in comparison to the bean bag that it was sort of comedic.

“What do you want? Are you here to ruin my fun again?” Tim asked with an annoyed look.

“Are you still mad that I didn’t fight myself?”

“What else would I be mad about?”

“Okay that’s fair but I came on business.”

“Jeez, you're always so uptight. Even when you joke around it seems almost forced. Lighten up a little.”

“So should I be sprawled out on a bean bag chair that is nearly triple my size.” Tim gave me as stern a look a child could give.

“Anyways, what is your so called business?”

“I want to know more about time travel and how it works.”

“Okay, do you have any idea how little that narrows it down.”

“What happens to my body when I go to a time in which the future me already exists?”

“Well, how do I put it? Your future self is sent here as a sort of limbo state until your past self has returned.”

“Okay. why?”

“It makes it easier if rather than a bunch of time travelers getting stuck in the same time they can be dispersed and not cause a paradox. However, I know I told you that you can’t go to the past but there is an exception.”

“And what might that be?”

“You can go to the past as long as what you do doesn’t affect you in the future and you are here in the world of stars as you call it. Although your body is still on earth, your mind is here and so it isn’t really affected.”