There is a world in which the circumstances of your undeath played out differently. Perhaps your slaver chose another victim, or decided that he would elevate you rather than enslave you. But that's but one circumstance: there are other worlds in which events played out just as you remember them, and you are no better off for knowing there is another version of you who got off easy.
But if you— every version of you, from every world he ever touched— could go back further, to the moment of his creation, and ensure that he was killed before he could ever become a vampire at all . . .
You'd save yourself. From that fate, anyway.
We killed every version of the man who would evolve into Zachary Comstock. And in that way, we saved ourselves.
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There is a world in which the circumstances of your undeath played out differently. Perhaps your slaver chose another victim, or decided that he would elevate you rather than enslave you. But that's but one circumstance: there are other worlds in which events played out just as you remember them, and you are no better off for knowing there is another version of you who got off easy.
But if you— every version of you, from every world he ever touched— could go back further, to the moment of his creation, and ensure that he was killed before he could ever become a vampire at all . . .
You'd save yourself. From that fate, anyway.
We killed every version of the man who would evolve into Zachary Comstock. And in that way, we saved ourselves.