[It's nice, amidst all this, that Barry is respectful. He does understand that he was fucking with something incredibly bigger than him, and that Kravitz represents that- it's a far cry from the way he's been treated by nearly everyone else on these islands. He knows how to talk to him, and also how to suck up. It's important to do this conversation properly. So he listens, narrows his eyes as Barry finally explains about moving between dimensions. That's why. That's why.
As he talks, Kravitz looks away and closes his eyes for a moment, before a large book appears on his lap that he begins to flip through. If Barry takes a peek, it's not actually his information he's searching over right now- the page he lands on is Taako's. And sure enough, there's a number near the top, a circled eight, that he brushes his fingers over before he replies.]
When I encountered Taako, Magnus, and Merle for the first time, their death count was not just high, but incredibly irregular. I was able to grant them pardon because they had not actually escaped the Astral Plane- they had never been there. There was no evidence of their souls crossing over, which... I don't love, but certainly explains things.
[He closes the book, laying his hands on it on his lap, leaning his elbow against it as he props his head up, fingers over his mouth as he tries to consider the options here. He only moves it to finally speak, after a few seconds of intense deliberation.]
Did you consider that perhaps, the time you experienced was only linear because it was the progression of your individual consciousness across parallel timelines? So it didn't matter if you died, your form wasn't-- it was the pulling of your soul between worlds as tied to this Light.
[Okay, but wait, Taako had been around in Faerun a while. Long enough to make a number of costly mistakes- he's still got at least one more question.]
So... what stopped this? I know the boys had been in Faerun for some time. If you jumped every year, what stopped that here-- or well, what managed to distract it long enough for it to only come now?
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As he talks, Kravitz looks away and closes his eyes for a moment, before a large book appears on his lap that he begins to flip through. If Barry takes a peek, it's not actually his information he's searching over right now- the page he lands on is Taako's. And sure enough, there's a number near the top, a circled eight, that he brushes his fingers over before he replies.]
When I encountered Taako, Magnus, and Merle for the first time, their death count was not just high, but incredibly irregular. I was able to grant them pardon because they had not actually escaped the Astral Plane- they had never been there. There was no evidence of their souls crossing over, which... I don't love, but certainly explains things.
[He closes the book, laying his hands on it on his lap, leaning his elbow against it as he props his head up, fingers over his mouth as he tries to consider the options here. He only moves it to finally speak, after a few seconds of intense deliberation.]
Did you consider that perhaps, the time you experienced was only linear because it was the progression of your individual consciousness across parallel timelines? So it didn't matter if you died, your form wasn't-- it was the pulling of your soul between worlds as tied to this Light.
[Okay, but wait, Taako had been around in Faerun a while. Long enough to make a number of costly mistakes- he's still got at least one more question.]
So... what stopped this? I know the boys had been in Faerun for some time. If you jumped every year, what stopped that here-- or well, what managed to distract it long enough for it to only come now?