spoltz
9/6/2025
This is an interesting time travel story. The premise is that there’s a self-contained valley where the narration is taking place. To the west, there are an infinite number of identical valleys, each 20 years in the future from the previous valley. To the east, the infinite valleys each go back 20 years into the past. Because travel between the valleys is possible, there is a Conseil and a heavy guard presence to prevent such travel. However, they do allow people to petition to visit the past or future if the reason is good enough, usually mourning. This brings up a whole bunch of unresolved questions about the world building. However, the story is good enough to balance out the negative issues.
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