An old man gives a young girl a pretty stone, and as fate would have it, she gives this pretty stone to a boy she likes. As fate would have it, this singular event becomes the crux of the universe, and sets the universe on the path toward its current destination. You, a derelict, wandering soul, have the chance to not give this girl the pretty stone, and avoid all of the catastrophe and despair. You will, however, erase all of the joy and love that this world has experienced. All of the kindness and the sorrow, the gain and the loss. Everything shall be reset back to zero.
I'm standing back at the fair I went to when I was a young child. This was the fair that I had first met Alex at. Of course, I'm not in my body of that time, but I'm still in Roland Duschand's body. At my waist hangs the blue Queoquartzite from a thick brown band. I don't ask questions to how it is there or I am here, ICARUS is involved. I look across the way to a wandering Alex, she's so...young, and innocent. I was innocent at this time...too, but maybe I wasn't totally. This decision right here being the crux of the universe? Just why would the universe pick this silly memory to base the entirety of its timeline on?
Maybe it didn't, maybe it's just the center of this timeline. Noah had dreamed of another life where Bonnie died from surgery and cancer. Maybe in that life things had gone different. Maybe.
The choice that I have to make. I think I know what I have to do. I don't know if I would have been able to do it when I first talked with Gavin, but I think I'm ready to make my choice if you are ready to make yours. I'm by your side no matter what happens.
CONTINUE ON TO STOP THE GIRL AND THE BOY FROM MEETING AND LET THE WORLD RESET
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