Chapter 10: Solution
Five is coming closer to an answer, sadly all his possibilities are dangerous and could cause side effects like destroying every cell in his body or erasing his mind … nothing Five wants to endure. The most difficult part is the aiming at the right point of time. The place isn't as important, even if he lands somewhere in the Sahara desert he will find his way back home. The date has to be the correct one.
Klaus is mostly busy by searching for food for him, reminding him to eat, most of this comes from Ben. He also plays card games with Ben to spend some down time. He has no real plan and Five thinks that both of his brother (the living and the dead one) believe in him fining a solution. That would erase this timeline and they don't have to spend the rest of eternity here in this apocalyptic world.
Sometimes Five wonders how Klaus´ immortality works. He can see that his seeing the dead and making ghost corporal is related but how comes in the price he has to pay for it. It´s not like any of their siblings or his own ability has a price. Good that's also wrong, it takes their energy, whatever that means but it doesn't take needs, feelings or memories. Something else he can start to research on as soon as he had returned home.
In the end is the solution for his problem relatively easy. Surprisingly it is Klaus who offers the spark that let the pieces in his head connect.
"Five, how did it feel to jump forward in time?" Klaus questions after he had lost against Ben a third time in a row and wasn't in the mood for another round.
Five has to think about it. When he jumps through space it's like taking a chess piece from the board and placing it at another position. Only seeing what happens on the chessboard itself. As he had jumped forward in time it was like … "It was like pushing doors open. As if a closed door had blocked my way and I had to use all my strength to get through it."
Klaus nods as if he understands, maybe he does. "And when you want to go back in time?" Five shrugs his shoulders. He has no idea, it´s not like it had worked until now. "Could it be that you try to push these doors open again." Five nods. "Then how about you try to leave the room and close the doors on you way out. I mean you came here by running through a door, maybe you just have to go back through the same door. The door is already open, nothing you have to use strength on, just step into the flow." Klaus´ hands make a waving motion and in Five´s mind appears a light.
Now he knows exactly how to go back.