Laura.
My jaw dropped down. I felt like my whole world was collapsing in front of me.
“I… I was like a doppelganger,” my voice almost didn’t come out.
Saskia threw her head back. “Worse than them.”
“No! I can’t stay like this. Please bring me back. I want to change it. I’ll just let things happen the way they used to be. I’d prefer dealing with my previous situation and letting nature do its course than leaving my parents! I can’t afford to lose my parents, Saskia. Please bring me back there,” I begged Saskia with horror.
I realized, I shouldn’t have done what I did. I should not precede my fate.
“I can’t do that anymore, Laura,” Saskia whispered. Her voice sounds defeated.
I couldn’t utter a word after hearing her. Saskia will never decline me unless it is something she wasn’t able to.
And when she said she can’t, she really can’t.
“We need to wait for a year before I could create a timed portal. And a century before I created the port to time-travel without a time limit. I told you that the last time I created a portal to time travel was for my friend,” Saskia patiently explained. “And that was not a century yet. We need a decade more to complete a century.”
“Then, I’ll wait for a year for you to create me a timed-portal,” I declared, feeling a little ray of hope.
Saskia threw her head back. “You can’t do that also, Laura.”
“Why not?”
“Because you will vanish before you reach a year,” Saskia whispered
“What?”
“Yes, Laura. Since you are temporarily copying and borrowing someone else's life, nature will not allow you to borrow it for long. You will vanish for a time we all didn’t know. And when you vanish, you will never be able to come back again. You will never be reincarnated just like how those who died did. You will vanish and be forgotten. That’s the law of nature, Laura. That’s the price you had to pay after what you did,” Saskia’s voice was filled with regret.
I could tell she regretted that she told me about the time travel option.
“Yeah, exactly. Because I thought you would like to come to your future and see what will be ahead of you. So, you can avoid those little hindrances you may encounter,” she answered my thoughts.
Just like Sabrina—my new self.
Saskia grabbed my hands and warmly enveloped them.
“You still did a great job creating a powerful Luna for your pack, Laura. Your abilities that slowly come out from you were totally enhanced with Sabrina. She even had a powerful white wolf,” she tried to console me.
But that person was supposed to be me. I didn’t ask for a strong wolf or enhanced abilities. I just wanted to have a wolf and have a better life with my parents, yet this is what happened.
“What should I do now?” I whispered helplessly.
I felt like another huge rock fell on me. My tears started to fall down my cheeks once again. My fear is starting to grow and become terror.
Saskia stayed silent while watching me weep. I remembered I asked her past self why she didn’t tell me about my future plans of going back to the past. Maybe there were connections behind it.
So I decided to voice it out. But before I could open my lips, Saskia spoke up.
“I remember now that I asked you that. And yeah, I did not mention it to you, hoping that everything will be fine. I don’t even know what the future holds when you travel back in time,” Saskia sighed heavily. But in a brief second, she flicks her finger as if she realized something more important. “Gosh! That’s it!”
I was hell curious about what she was talking about.
Saskia turned to me with certainty in her eyes.
“It seems like your timeline and my dear friend’s timeline collided. Your life, your new self and that poor friend of mine are connected!”
I frowned deeply. I don’t understand a thing.
“Your timeline includes my friend’s old timeline also. And when Sabrina Morton appeared, it was the time frame when my friend traveled back to change her fate too. Yet, she didn’t succeed. Because Sabrina Morton was fated to be born and saved. My poor Sabrina gave her life to give way to your new self.”
Saskia seemed to struggle to believe everything. She seemed to be putting the puzzle pieces together, yet she wasn’t fully happy with the outcome.
“Two lives need to be sacrificed to give way to the new one,” she whispered. Her voice filled with sorrow.
Upon realizing what she was talking about, my head pounded with tension. I seemed to connect something too.
“That friend that you are talking about was no other than Sabrina Collin’s right?” I breathed deeply as I waited for Saskia to answer.
And when she nodded, I was still in shock. Now my new self was named after the friend she lost.
“That must be the reason why I forgot to tell you that I met you in the past–to give way to the coming new you. That must be the reason why when I saw your reflection in the sacred lagoon it seemed to transform to a new person,” Saskia said softly as if she was telling it to herself.
My heart raced in my chest. What is she trying to say? That Sabrina Morton was really meant to come?
And what will happen to me? Am I really destined to vanish… to be forgotten?
“Your timeline connects with Sabrina Collins’ original timeline. And the arrival of your new self connects with Sabrina Collins’ time-traveling frame,” Saskia finally summed up. “One timeline splits into two.”
I thought Saskia was right. I finally came to understand. Since Sabrina Collins messed with time, her timeline broke. Just like how mine did when I changed the past. Changing things even to the slightest possible, could really cause huge destruction.
Truly, no one succeeded in messing with time. I should not have tried my luck.
Now I was feeling doomed. There was no hope in me. I was meant to be forgotten. I was meant to cease to exist!
I shook my head uncontrollably.
No! I couldn’t let that happen!
I refused to vanish!