human
Valt:  "Those orbs react to human attachment—love, hate, whatever. Any strong emotion will set one off. That means that a jump of hundreds of years shouldn’t be possible, ordinarily speaking. No one could feel such a powerful attachment to someone that far in the past, right? But there was a lone exception—a man who loved a witch and made her his wife. Your husband." Valt knew because he’d used it himself.
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Tinasha:  Tinasha’s eyes widened.
human
Valt:  "The artifact was designed so anyone sufficiently determined could change the past. But that was only half of it. Resolve alone with no feeling behind it wouldn’t trigger the artifact. Only the desire to use Eleterria, even at the cost of one’s own life, would remake the world anew. The heir four hundred years ago must have been pretty surprised. Just when he thought the cycle was over and he could enjoy his final rest, his own era started up again."
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Valt:  It was all too easy for Valt to imagine his ancestor’s shock. He must have felt astonishment that bordered on despair—enough to make him scrawl a curse upon future generations in the records. "But on the contrary, it gave me hope. I dared to think…if you weren’t a witch, and if you came to this time period in search of him, then this may be the timeline where everything goes as planned.”
human
Valt:  And now, that hope was paying off. All of Valt’s meticulous preparations had successfully tripped Tinasha up. Tinasha, with all of her fantastic power, had rarely showed herself in previous timelines. Even once she met and married Oscar, she would refuse to listen to any request that sounded remotely fishy. But she was different now. While she could be cruel, she was also lost. The fact that Tuldarr had not fallen to ruin also worked to Valt’s benefit. He knew that when she’d been a witch, she chose to continue living for the Tuldarr citizens who perished and turned to souls without any sense of who they were. He was well aware that Tinasha would never, under any circumstances, abandon her country. This chance would never come again. If Valt let it slip by, salvation would elude him and his beloved for all time. He had to detach them from the world before it caught up.
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Valt:  “There is no such thing as a world where everyone is happy. Saving one person means that someone else will be sacrificed. And Eleterria will always get used as long as there is misery in the world. But I’m done with all of that. Our worldviews are all so limited. The exact same sand dune collapses only to be rebuilt, over and over. How much longer must I go along with it? It’s foolish and selfish to believe that saving those important to you means nothing else matters. It’s infuriating.” It really was foolish. And Valt was one of those fools. He eyed the woman who would become the world’s trump card.