Oh, Illyan, you know my Vor honor prevents me from helping proles cheat on their exams.
[ He can't even give that the saccharine sweetness he would under normal circumstances. ]
I'll grant I surely haven't watched the number of holodramas you doubtless have - I peg you for a child raised on a steady diet of the falsehoods of Vorthalia the Bold, Hero of Barrayar - but my impression of time travel is that the smallest change can cause ripple effects. If time were going to be altered by our being here, then the both of us already should have winked out of existence. Meaning that either it's not going to be altered because the flow of time is inevitable, or we're in a parallel timeline anyway.
[ Byerly...might slightly be overstating the number of holodramas he didn't watch. He...All right, he had a fondness for them, back in his younger days. ]
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[ He can't even give that the saccharine sweetness he would under normal circumstances. ]
I'll grant I surely haven't watched the number of holodramas you doubtless have - I peg you for a child raised on a steady diet of the falsehoods of Vorthalia the Bold, Hero of Barrayar - but my impression of time travel is that the smallest change can cause ripple effects. If time were going to be altered by our being here, then the both of us already should have winked out of existence. Meaning that either it's not going to be altered because the flow of time is inevitable, or we're in a parallel timeline anyway.
[ Byerly...might slightly be overstating the number of holodramas he didn't watch. He...All right, he had a fondness for them, back in his younger days. ]