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k_a_webb“You’re certain that no one I left behind will remember me?” Matt asked, turning to stare Siobhan’s eyes to see if she was lying to him.
“As certain as I can be.” Siobhan sighed. “There are a few people who are immune to the magic of the door, but it doesn’t happen often and if it did happen to someone that you were close to I’m sorry. Unfortunately there’s nothing you can do about, there’s no way of sending you back, and it’s something you need to put to the back of your mind.”
“Has anyone ever got back to Earth?”
Siobhan glanced at the ceiling, appearing to be asking someone up there for the answer to his question, before looking back at him. “Yes, they have, which is how we know that no one will remember who you are.” She nibbled on her bottom lip. “It happened by pure luck and I don’t it would ever happen to you. We honestly don’t know how to recreate the door, because if we could I wouldn’t be here. The moment I knew it was possible I would have gone back.”
Matt nodded. “I believe you, Siobhan. I just can’t help wondering if it might be possible to go back and what the people I left behind might be going through.” He turned back to look at the flat he’d been allotted. “Amy might still remember me?”
“There’s a chance. It’s a slim chance and even if she does, Matt, the likelihood of you returning is even slimmer. You also have to take into consideration the time difference and how the magic works, because you getting back to Earth at the right time seems impossible. She’ll move on, in the end, the same way we all have, because there’s nothing else we can do. To her you’ll have just disappeared.”
“Could she find out about Taithmarin?”
“I don’t know. I suppose it’s possible, if enough people do remember losing someone and there was someone to tell them about our world. Taithmarin is big, so I have no way of knowing everything that goes on everywhere, and that means I don’t know exactly who’s returned home or if someone who lost someone and remembered them turned up here. With magic anything could happen, but that doesn’t mean it will.”
“Okay, so you think I would be better of simply accepting what’s happened and moving on?”
“When I did this all became very much easier, but there are some people who haven’t and probably never will. This world isn’t where they want to be, there are too many strange creatures, and all they want is to return to the world they left behind. It doesn’t matter to them that it will have changed, that the people they loved might have died, that they might end up in a time completely different to the one they left behind, or that the magic of this world could have made them into something different.” Siobhan blew out a deep breath. “Most of them will never be happy again, but I have a chance of making my life here as good as the one I left behind was.”
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Date: 2013-11-05 05:55 am (UTC)That should say "don't think" above.
>> “Okay, so you think I would be better of simply accepting what’s happened and moving on?” <<
That should say "better off" above.