Tuesday: Time Travel
Hello, everyone. I’m argentum-ls, pinch-hitting for the week, and today's theme is time travel. Prompts can be characters going back or forward in time, time itself changing directions, metaphors about time or traveling through it, or any other way you way to interpret the theme
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Um. I just realized this may not actually be anything like what you were looking for, sorry.
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Methos at 1000 was enamored with mortals, with their mayfly lives.
Methos at 2000 was experimenting with death, learning all the ways there were to kill.
Methos at 3000 was relearning how to live, how to blend, how to rule from the shadows.
Methos at 4000 was traveling, seeing the far corners of the world that were yet unexplored.
Methos at 5000 was mastering technology, enthralled with what the internet would become.
Methos at 6000 -
“I remember this,” he tells the child, barely 500 and still so wild.
The child glares at him, grubby fingers around a sharpened rock. “We survive,” he tells the child gently. “We grow so much stronger. And we will always have another day.”
He speaks a language not yet created in the child’s world; but he will remember, and he will understand the words one day.
Methos at 500 was mad, angry at existence and helpless to do anything about it. Methos at 6000 is the most powerful person in the world.
“I will send you back,” he tells the child. “But know that one day you will be where I am - one day, we will have the stars at our command.”
The child’s fingers clench on the rock; Methos murmurs the incantation, sending him back to the fertile plain of their youth.
A very long time ago, Methos looked upon himself in fear and in wonder, and he did not understand for millennia. The Game had not yet been invented and Methos had thought himself alone, the only one to die and then live again.
He rises to his feet and strides to the window, looking out over his empire. He is a benevolent ruler; very few people even know they live by his will alone.
The Game is won.
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The 500 year old Methos is just a bit crazy, at the moment; he gets better.
Glad you like it nonetheless!
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