August 15
“And I suppose after that, you’ll be out of the time loop, and I’ll be stuck in it,” I say.
“No no,” she says, putting her hands up. “Once I’m out of the loop, it’ll collapse, and you’ll be free to go. I may have some other offers for you later on in life, but you’ll be free to take those or leave them as you see fit. The loop is the only one where we’re stuck with each other.”
“So what do you want?” I ask.
“It’s very simple, and it’s very minor,” Lisa says. “Almost trivial, really. It’s just… it’s going to take a lot of faith on your part.”
“What do you mean?”
“I want you to burn the notebook you’re using to communicate with the Order,” Lisa says. “Destroy it and the loop collapses. We’ll both be let go, and everything will flow as it should.”
She has got to be kidding. The notebook is the only thing keeping me from being helpless as an Interloper. Without the ability to make notes to the future, to set things right, I’m just an ordinary girl.
But would it really be so bad? I mean, I could get on with my life. I could probably go find a guy, maybe get married, have kids– I could screw the destiny that says I die alone and childless. I could leave a legacy on the universe, a real one. I could stop ditching class, I could get caught up on my reading… Lisa is giving me the choice that Peter never did. There’s literally no reason for me to not take this.
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