his reply doesn't come immediately, because his immediate reaction is no, absolutely not, but equally he knows that he can't stop her. he knows that if he doesn't help, someone else will, and he'll be shut out from anything in the future. this isn't like melissa, where he could just web her bedroom window shut and know that would be it for an hour or so.
he knows what it was like, being eleven's age and wishing he was able to change things. he'd been a lot more selfish, a lot more arrogant, but the underlying desire had been the same.
there's the question, though, of whether her lantern would go with her, whether the mental representation of herself would be enough to harm her given the physics of this place are different to the laws and physics of earth.
(he hopes not. there's a chance it's safer here than it was back there.) ]
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sure is a whole lot to take in.
his reply doesn't come immediately, because his immediate reaction is no, absolutely not, but equally he knows that he can't stop her. he knows that if he doesn't help, someone else will, and he'll be shut out from anything in the future. this isn't like melissa, where he could just web her bedroom window shut and know that would be it for an hour or so.
he knows what it was like, being eleven's age and wishing he was able to change things. he'd been a lot more selfish, a lot more arrogant, but the underlying desire had been the same.
there's the question, though, of whether her lantern would go with her, whether the mental representation of herself would be enough to harm her given the physics of this place are different to the laws and physics of earth.
(he hopes not. there's a chance it's safer here than it was back there.) ]
What can reach back? How?