...so far not ones I mind having the warning. Okay, thanks.

This probably means the Emperor will get a heads-up too. Not sure how I feel about that, but Adult Me didn’t say “except the Dad Arcana, screw him.”

I can’t imagine what the fool has against An Authority Figure. Like, at all.

(She can clearly imagine plenty he’d dislike.)

He mentioned SAGE - Hermit - as his friend, and Mortimer, Death, as “a more distant ally.” I think we found out more of his more distant allies.

I hope it works, just gotta be prepared for it not to, right?

“Violence isn’t the answer, it’s the question. Hope the answer isn’t yes.” (This in a passable imitation of a Mid Atlantic accent.)

I figure one way or another we’ll need to figure out what it wants, but that might have to be after a fight.

Okay. So if any of this is unclear, I'm sorry in advance, it might be complicated.

So, how does time flow?

Is it an arrow going forward? Is it stuff making other stuff happen, cause and effect, things going forward? That's what a lot of the West thinks, how most people in my America in the year 7 PB (or we think the year 2023 CE) think.

Is it a wheel rolling around? Is it a bunch of cycles happening over and over again, the same old story hitting the same plot beats one after another, spring-summer-fall-winter as metaphors for repeating history?

I had a vision of the future during the whole liminal visions thing last month where I saw myself in Questing Country, getting my hair braided by myself as an adult. I can explain why myself as an adult is a huge deal later. And they both thought it was important enough to tell me that time is both.

It's stuff happening in order, moving forward, but with patterns and cycles we can recognize. And change. For the better. It's like - there was a book my brother read to me as a kid where a scientist had this exact same discussion with a philosopher, and the philosopher gave him a watch shaped like a nautilus shell, and my adult self reminded me about that book and used it as an example.

Then she told me to warn the Travellers and the Arcana.

...Ooops. In my defense I have been telling everyone I ran into.