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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3814352" data-attributes="member: 29014">"There are many possible paradoxes, aren't there?  I've been thinking of the fact that you guys never mentioned this and how that can possibly work out, since the past versions of you would have known this would happen when returned, and you must be returned or this future couldn't ever exist, but then I realised that telling everyone is an event that is still in your minds' futures.  So you can choose whether or not to tell other people what happened to you, and if you do tell them, then you don't get this future--this future only results when you keep the fact that you visited the future a secret.""Of course, Elektra could shed some light on that, can't you?  What was it like when the Crux absorbed you?""For me, it was more like a trancelike state, almost like a dream.  Surreal things kept happening, and there were fades to darkness.  I was somehow drifting.  I have these flashes of random stories and events of happy things that happened to me in those dreams, but they never came true.""It sounds to me like you just weren't quite able to recoalesce within one future, so you were adrift between alternate futures.  Another possibility is that you had something exactly like this happen in a different future, but the dreamlike state is the only thing you get to remember of it.  If that latter was true, it could be the way the universe regulates itself and avoids those paradoxes."</blockquote>

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