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for gen_drabble challenge 9: time
Was and is and might not have been.
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The Athosians speak of the past as though it only might have happened; cause, they believe, works in both directions. This is occurring now, and so that must have been, although a moment ago it might not.
Or something like that. Halling tries to explain it to John after one of the early harvests, when everyone is more than a little drunk on exhaustion and relief and the first bitter wine. John nods in all the apparently correct places and doesn’t understand a single sentence.
(But that could be because everyone else is trying to square dance and failing spectacularly.)
Was and is and might not have been.
*
The Athosians speak of the past as though it only might have happened; cause, they believe, works in both directions. This is occurring now, and so that must have been, although a moment ago it might not.
Or something like that. Halling tries to explain it to John after one of the early harvests, when everyone is more than a little drunk on exhaustion and relief and the first bitter wine. John nods in all the apparently correct places and doesn’t understand a single sentence.
(But that could be because everyone else is trying to square dance and failing spectacularly.)