Yes. And now there are at least two instances of something β or someone β being powerful enough to do just that.
[ She eases back against her seat, slow because she aches everywhere β but also because she's thinking. After a stretch of silence, she ventures: ]
They're meant to have rescued us from the Storm, which sounds as though they aren't capable of fighting it off themselves. If they were, our worlds would have been spared. [ She flicks her gaze up to Jim as if to say, Right? He's expressed his thoughts on the Storm in the past. That, coupled with the nature of time, could mean anything now. ] Which makes me wonder how long this one has got. And if the technology in Nadril is powerful enough to interfere with the Natha, then do they want us to travel there to see if that can take on the Storm? And are they playing with time to buy us more of it?
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[ She eases back against her seat, slow because she aches everywhere β but also because she's thinking. After a stretch of silence, she ventures: ]
They're meant to have rescued us from the Storm, which sounds as though they aren't capable of fighting it off themselves. If they were, our worlds would have been spared. [ She flicks her gaze up to Jim as if to say, Right? He's expressed his thoughts on the Storm in the past. That, coupled with the nature of time, could mean anything now. ] Which makes me wonder how long this one has got. And if the technology in Nadril is powerful enough to interfere with the Natha, then do they want us to travel there to see if that can take on the Storm? And are they playing with time to buy us more of it?