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*They form a strong cord*
Consider this your lifeline. As long as the strands are not broken, you have a path to survival. But when the weave of life is frayed, you must cobble together enough strands of time in your favor.
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This will take time, and I am no expert of the weave. I can hardly perceive the waters as it is.
*Reassembles my pistol, and after much effort and days you start to manipulate the strands*
You need to take these strands and weave them together into the future you desire. A future where your injuries no longer cost you your life.
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Time is unknowable.
*Sands spiral out of my palm, branching on top of itself before it drops to the ground in a clench of my fist*
Much like a fractal extending infinitely in every direction, we can merely catch a glimpse. You must gaze upon the unknowable form of time and learn its attributes in the framing of your chosen discipline.
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So be it. Now you must attune yourself to the weave. That will not be a short-lived, nor painless process.
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*Laughs as my voice fades to emptiness*
Not everything is as it seem—
*They strike me, finding an empty, dead magician's suit*
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You'll be in this pain for a long, long time. You must obligate yourself to your chosen window into the nature of time. Everything must revolve around the element you choose. Some choose even more complex representations, although those tend to get out of hand. Perhaps you will drift toward your own signature discipline, as my student has.
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You may best align with the disciples of the tree, then. Or perhaps the weave.
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That's not a concern right now. Right now, you need to bind yourself to one of those disciplines. To me, time is a boundless desert.
*Waves my hand, swirling the sands around my arm*
The sands are aimless, directionless, and will swallow you up to be forgotten. The water freaks prefer to look at time's forward movement and seeming inevitability, with many tributaries and vortices. There are many other disciplines as well. Once you've adopted one, you can tap into many of time's deeper essences.
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That's not a concern right now. Right now, you need to bind yourself to one of those disciplines. To me, time is a boundless desert.
*Waves my hand, swirling the sands around my arm*
The sands are aimless, directionless, and will swallow you up to be forgotten. The water freaks prefer to look at time's forward movement and seeming inevitability, with many tributaries and vortices. There are many other disciplines as well. Once you've adopted one, you can tap into many of time's deeper essences.
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Let's.
*Cracks my knuckles*
Time is an abstract structure, the nature of which we can only hope to grasp. Thus, we visualize time by nature of analogy. Of similitude. It's an imperfect way of looking at that which we serve.
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I hope for your sake you don't earn both. You won't die, at least not yet. But you won't make it out of this desert without learning the basics of a discipline.
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