Intelligent life would only ever feel fear and distress when that which they were familiar with changed.
However, it is also in the consequent adaptation and adjustment—and the process of change caused therein—that intelligent beings would keep growing and become complete.
The Extraordinary individuals were very much further beyond ordinary beings in that aspect of adaptibility.
They would witness firsthand their own hometown developing from a village in the mountains into the holy city of a profound civilization. They would also witness firsthand the diversion of a river they know, directed by their own or another's power to flow towards a different direction.
