Maliaphire: This chapter is dedicated to Bambolieblue for being the first and ONLY person to review the previous chapter, (so far) here's the story:
GMG: You could go back in time…
Alanna: What? How?
GMG: As one of the greater gods I have the power to send people back in time.
Alanna: But won't that change history?
GMG: Partly but not in a large or bad way I will make sure of that.
Alanna: Thom too? If he agrees, of course.
GMG: Thom is not one of my chosen but you are twins and I don't feel my fellow gods would object.
Alanna: But wouldn't we be too old to go to the convent or the palace? And what about our other selves?
GMG: Well I can send you back in time at the same age as your other selves at the time and of course you would have to tell the "other" Alanna and Thom without telling them anything important about the future.
Alanna: would we keep our knowledge of the future and the skills we have learned?
GMG: You would keep your memories and knowledge but you would have to re-teach the skills you have learned to your bodies; you would not have the muscles, strength or stamina you have gained over time and your magic would not be as developed so you would have to re-learn spells and everything else gradually
Alanna: What happens when we reach the present time?
GMG: Your consciousness would merge with your other selves keeping all your memories and skills and you would continue along the timeline as you had previously intended while your other selves would go back in time just as you did, you must be very careful not to allow your future knowledge to influence the decisions you or your other selves make, after I send you back in time you must take care of everything else yourselves, well almost everything. Call for me when you have made your decision.
Alanna ran down the palace hallway to explain to Thom about the sudden opportunity. Two minutes later they were deep in discussion.
Thom: But I don't really want to train as a knight, sister dear.
Alanna: Think about it from a scholar's point of view Thom; you get to travel back in time, talk to your "other self", and find out about all of the problems with god induced time travel, plus you get to keep your lovely sister company!
Thom: Well, I'll have to think about it…
Alanna: Fine but make your decision quickly, this window of opportunity only takes place during the midwinter festival, and I'd rather not wait another year.
Thom's POVAs Thom went to bed for the night he thought about the opportunity he and his sister had been given. It would be great to find out what time travel was like and even if knight training was terrible, at least he'd get to spend time with his sister, or her other self at any rate, and he wouldn't lose any of his own time! I guess it's a yes then he thought to himself, then he fell asleep.
Maliaphire: I was going to stop there but I am trying to write a really long chapter (compared to the previous two) so here's some more!
The next day Alanna and Thom discussed the problems they would face. They couldn't rely on Lord Alan not to notice that there were FOUR Trebonds being educated instead of two, so this proposed a serious dilemma. Plus sums of money were sent quarterly for a pupil's upkeep at the convent or the palace, so they would have to have rather a lot of money with them, also things like a horse and weapons had to be bought in Thom's case and dresses and jewellery in Alanna's.
"I've got it!" Exclaimed Thom, "I forge an awful lot of letters in father's handwriting, and spell them to be invisible to anyone but Maude inside Trebond, we'll use a catalyst (Maliaphire: If that's not what you do with one just pretend it is) to keep the invisibility spell going so that it will wear off leaving no traces by the time a letter is outside Trebond. The rest of the money we need we can just carry with us.
"That's a great idea, and we'll only tell our other selves, Maude, and Coram!" Alanna replied.
They got ready deciding they would buy almost everything they needed when hey were in the past. Alanna called the Goddess telling her their answer.
"Very well," the voice of the Goddess called, "when you reach this time again you will merge with your other selves, come to this very room and remember, be very careful!"
Suddenly a portal opened in the wall and they walked carefully through it before it closed behind them.
Maliaphire: So what did you think, I'm not going to update till I get at least two more reviews!