"There is something you need to know about true prophecies. I do not mean the junk muggle fortune tellers and fakes will throw at you. I am talking about the read deal. Prophecies are first and foremost self fulfilling. They are told so that the events spoken of will take place. If one participant in a prophecy hears of it and decides to disobey Fate, his avoidance of said prophecy will inevitably lead to its fulfillment. If one hears it and does everything in his power to fulfill it, well… You can figure that one out on your own. Perhaps it is just for this very reason that the events in a prophecy are written in stone. Fate reveals its plan so that it will be followed exactly to the letter. Resistance is futile.

"Besides, prophecies are said in ambiguous wordings. Even with all the scrutiny of the world, we cannot possibly predict an event second for second just from a prophecy. We are often lucky just to get half of the message correct before its fulfillment. Maybe our floundering around to figure out exactly what a prophecy means leads to its fulfillment. Maybe if we just left the future alone, Fate would allow us to break the rules. And if we did happen to go against a prophecy, would we even realize that we did? I wouldn't know. I've never found an unfulfilled prophecy."

I wrote those words once. I still believe them too. But there's so much I left unsaid in that passage. There's so much that is still a mystery, even to me. If some events are written in stone, does that mean that the time leading up to those events is just as rigid? Or are the terms and conditions flexible? Hmph. I hate Fate.

And I absolutely despise Time.

If I were to kill someone, and then go back in time and saved that person, I would cease to exist, as there would be no one to go back in time in the first place. If Fate knows everything is written in stone, why would she give us the power to travel time? Why mock us so? Time moves in the most inconvenient ways. It moves too quickly when we don't want it to do so. It moves slower than a sloth when we want something to end quickly. In short, Time flies, whether we want it to or not, and we can do nothing about it. And Time is the devourer of all things.

I can't accept that.

I think there's a fundamental problem with how we look at time. We can move around in it in two directions. I can't believe no one saw this problem before. For every place we describe, we need three dimensions. It's so simple to see now. And yet it makes it so much more complex. We used to think time was like a stream, flowing in one direction, and we made Time Turners to swim upstream. Ha, Time a stream.

Time is a freaking ocean.

I think I'm right about this. No, I know I'm right. I saw it in his face. He was surprised so many times… Things didn't turn out the way he thought they would. Time has to be malleable. He did it before, didn't he? So why can't I?

Hmph. You must think I'm crazy. Don't worry, I probably am. Just remember that in these last few moments, I tried. I've never wanted anything I did to be remembered before. I've tried all my life, for things I didn't want to do and for things I felt I had to do, but for once I feel like this is my own decision. I don't care if I screw everything up this time. It's not like I have anything else to lose anyways. By the looks of things, if I don't succeed, you won't either. Fate writes in stone and Time is the devourer of all things.

But right now, I think that's absolute bullshit, and I'm going to prove it.