Romans & histoires Working Backwards

"Have you maybe studied the buttons on the remote or anything like that since last time." "Even better," he pulls me upstairs. Once we're in his room, he shuts the door, "I went back to like the 1900s." "The what?!" "Like 1989 or something. I don't know. The point is, everything looked different. Everything was different. Way before the Reversal." "Wow." He seems so excited. The most excited I've ever seen him. "It was like opposite day or something. The men were literally ruling shit," he shakes his head slowly.

But the next morning I woke up and the citizens carried on with their daily jobs but nothing had happened last night. If it didn't bother them, it didn't bother me. I got up and continued walking until I could no longer tell where I was. Which is a good thing that means I'm lost but I can find my way back when I leave. I finally came to clearing in the forest with nothing but tall grass all around. I let my wolf instincts take over to smell the air to see if anything was nearby that could harm me. I sense nothing, not even a bird. I continued walking through the grass that came all the way up to my thigh.

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Set it back down exactly where it had been. For whoever needed to see it next.

Daisy walked back to the main house. Everyone was busy with dividing rice into trays, working at full capacity. They are the elderly people but so healthy. They like to work to be moved around and don't like to sit in one place feeling cramped and tired. Daisy really admires them.

We act without thinking, and sometimes, unfortunately, we do something that we will regret the next day when we wake up. ❝Which one will be reminded?❞ she asked him. Daem suddenly laughed annoyingly and slowly approached her while she backed away. And then she found that incident familiar, especially when he cornered her. She sat down in a chair because there was nothing left to retreat to.That's how the incident is: she remembers a little, but their situation is reversed because, in what she remembered, it's the one who's retreating, and she's the one who's moving forward.

I didn't look back, because ahead lay a far wider world waiting for me. Behind me, a figure had been watching from afar. Only after the carriage completely vanished from sight did it turn away in disappointment.

Minus Waking up next to Cricket this morning was at the top of my list of life’s great moments. Unfortunately, the feeling was short lived as a sense of dread crept over me. We hadn’t exactly finished our conversation last night. Far from it. I still had one key detail to fill her in on, and I knew she wasn’t going to be happy about it.