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k_a_webbThe silence that followed wasn’t unexpected. Daniel wished Kara was in human form, so she could say something, but she just stared at him with her inscrutable fox eyes. Sighing, he looked over at the house, hoping that the blanket would turn up soon, because he needed to talk to her. It had been centuries since they’d last had a conversation and that had been just before she walked away from him for good. Doing his best to take his mind off his memories he looked up at Miles, who was studying him in such a way that Daniel knew Miles was studying his mind.
“What do you think happened to the other you?” Miles asked.
“I don’t know. Until a boy offered to send me back in time I didn’t even know that something like this was possible, but it wasn’t a chance I was going to give up.” Daniel ran a hand through his hair. “I made so many mistakes, Miles, and I can put some of them right if I live this life again.”
“Are you sure you should have left your time?”
Daniel bit his lip, looking back at Kara and then at Miles. “To be honest I cared more about getting back here than I did about the time I left behind. If I change the choices I made in this life it probably won’t even exist.”
Miles looked unconvinced. “I don’t think time works that way, Daniel.”
“So you think there’s another world where people are having to deal with my disappearance?”
“Yes, I do.” Miles sighed. “I can understand why you came back, but I think the time you left behind still exists and this would be a parallel universe.”
“Which would mean I’ve travelled from one universe to another as well as back in time.”
Shrugging, Miles looked over at Kara. “Kara isn’t sure what to think right now.”
“I had to do this, Kara,” Daniel said, as he turned his full attention to her. “You don’t know how badly I screwed up this life the first time I lived it and I want to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.”
“Maybe some things are fated,” Miles replied.
Kara nodded, even though she couldn’t speak in her fox form, but Daniel didn’t need her to. “If you mean the prophecies…” He shook his head. “I studied them for years and I know that if it hadn’t been me who changed the Brotherhood it would have been someone else, but this time it won’t be me. This time I’ll be on the right side.” He ran a hand through his hair. “Where’s that blanket?”
“Be patient, Daniel.”
“I want to talk to Kara.”
“She’s not sure she wants to talk to you.”
“Kara…” Daniel tried to work out how to explain his choices to her, wanting her to understand him. “A long time ago I fell in love with you and I took my feelings for you too far. I met a necromancer, who I know I’m going to meet again, and I decided that the best way to your heart was to bring Conrad and Miriam back to life.”
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.