There were no right
choices and no wrong choices for you, for the power of the kinsman
redeemer is not in himself, but in the way that those around him react
to what he signifies. In every age before this you have done the same,
as you will in every age after this as well. You were humanity's last
chance, yet it is not up to you to change their course: it is up to them
to change their own."
Here I raised my head from its dull droop and looked questioningly into
his eyes. "What do you mean," I asked, "That I did not prevent it in any
of the other ages? How could I exist in any other age but this?"
"Then you do not understand?"
"Why else would I ask?" I faintly smiled.
"These are the Ice Ages, the end of an age of history. Every time that
the temporal continuum revolves around eternity, it has a new age, much
like the years of the earth as it revolves around the sun. When the
atomic anionizers went off, they did on a large scale what they were
designed to do on a small scale: reverse the poles through an extreme
electric charge, by injecting countless solitary electrons into the
atoms. But with so many of them exploded at once, they did this to the
earth itself, reversing its poles.
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