An- So, I'm an idiot. When I wrote the last chapter, there were two Hows I had planned to answer, and in my rush to get it done before I left on vacation, I completely forgot to add How number two in. This How is why our four main characters so conveniently forgot the entire plot of a book they had all read (besides Plot. It was really because the plot needed it to be). In the beginning (The Breaking of the Fellowship chapter, if I recall correctly) we kind of addressed it, but then realized how much that would mess with everything (why would things happen the same? Why would the girls have any emotional reactions or surprise to anything, if they knew it was coming?) and just dropped that, hoping that no one would bring it up (and, surprisingly didn't, but I guess that's a logic that just gets discarded in this kind of plot). It still kind of stayed in the back of my mind, so decided to give SOME sort of explanation, while I was at explaining other stuff.

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Wardrobes and Rabbit Holes Add In

There was one more thing, one last unanswered question. Carla was already here. She'd damn well get the answer.

"Niori read The Lord of the Rings when she was ten. She went through everything Tolkien wrote, including The History of Middle Earth. She re-read the trilogy every year, right up until the Fellowship dropped out of my closet. She got Jane into it, and I'm pretty sure Jane went every fanfiction story on the internet. They dragged us to the first movie, and then Erin and I were obsessed, too. We've only read the books once, but we've seen the movie a million times. Erin can recite the movies word for word when watching. We've been fangirls for years. So how the hell did we all happen to forget the story we all know by heart?" Silence, and that was an answer, but fuck it, Carla wanted her answers, "the minute after something happened, the plot point hit me. Funnily enough, it was never a big revelation. It was just...there, like an afterthought, didn't really dwell on it even after we went home. It wasn't really until you started to tell me this that I even realized it. I'm guessing that was you," another thing not phrased as a question.

"Yes. There were things that couldn't change, and you would have done everything to do just that. Some things are fixed points, and you would have tampered with them all. Keeping those memories to the back of your mind was the only way to do it."

There were so many people who died. If they had known, they could have given a warning to so many people. They could have saved so many from so much pain, if not for this woman.

"Wow, you really like to fuck with our minds," There was so much bitterness in her voice it burned in her throat.

Carla half waited for an answer saying something about the greater good. If she said it, Carla would have screamed. Thankfully, the goddess thing knew better than to give her that bullshit.

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I know it's short and has an awkward ending, but that's because it's supposed to fit until the last one. I apologize for my dumbness.