Prologue

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The man floated in the weightlessness of time and space. Not that he was really a man, as such, only in the way he presented himself to the humanoids. He'd taken on the human form so many times and for so long now that he'd almost forgotten what he really looked like.
Time passed him by like many images, the future he was already watching had not yet even happened to those involved. Boredom, another very human emotion that he'd experienced a little too often.
Why not have a little fun while he was in the time stream? It's not like he'd be affected by any changes he was beyond that. A little tweak here and a change there was all it took and now he just had to sit back and watch it happen.

From just outside the time stream another life form watched the messing of time. This creature too had used the human form, but its true form was non-corporal. This life form had morals and knew better than to mess with the space-time continuum. It did not realise that its own future was about to change in a drastic way. If it had, it would surely have intervened.

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