| "You see, you would be both your 'sister' and yourself. To be honest,
I'm not sure if your personalities would merge fully, though all the scrolls
and tomes seem to indicate that. You would certainly have the memories
of both. It's a very dodgy process, though. I can't control which of the
alternate timelines I pull from, really. I'll have to go with the first
one I can firmly grasp, as your time before shifting again may be quite
limited. We won't have time to pick and choose, nor will we be able to
have a second try at this. I have to pull a divergent enough analog to
make you separate from your past self, and then name you in very short
order, else we risk you being undone."
It sounded risky to Astra, as though she'd like to think her alternate
selves were much like her, there were no guarantees. Indeed, from what
the old sage said, he would have to pull from timelines that were wildly
different from her own. She wasn't sure if she could deal with that. Still,
the alternative was worse than death, it was a drifting dispersion throughout
the time stream. She decided that was a more frightening possibility than
merging with aspects of any of her "sisters". She let Myrddin begin the
ceremony...
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