How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
“Ha! You understand nothing. Of course it’s me. The darkest, truest part of me, distilled over countless repeated lifetimes. She will remain to guard the doorway to the past, even if I am no longer here. She won’t let you pass. You don’t have the sword. There’s nothing you can do.”
She could have been bluffing — wouldn’t killing her also kill the Jester? It was hard to know, but I still needed to find a way to go back and she was right, I didn’t have the sword. I’d given it to Biscuit to put in the treasury. Which we’d then taken out and taken back in time to give to Biscuit, and so on. By sticking it in a time loop, she’d put it out of reach.
“We can just use the second one,” said Maurice.