Chapter 358: How Things Unfolded (1)
As soon as they were finished having breakfast, Mara didn’t waste time and asked Raine that they proceed in looking into their past with Nathan’s help. They brought Lark with them as well, seeing as Nathan had planned to do a simultaneous relaying of their visions by connecting the timeline and seeing the dots for the whole story involving them all.
With everything prepared, they went inside one of the private rooms in the mansion. "Can you also go back in time and change the past?" Mara curiously asked Nathan as the four of them started forming a circle.
"I can, but altering the past has a corresponding price to it. The safest thing to do is to just travel back in time and watch how things unfolded without changing anything," Nathan explained. "The keeper of the Voyager’s Watch can do that anytime he wishes, but he can only go back to the present time during the appearance of the blue moon."
"Right. Raine had told me about her daughter Aire who did just that to stay with you..." Mara recalled. She then frowned in confusion as she asked, "But doesn’t it feel weird that she tried going back to the past just to be with you? I mean, didn’t it occur to you that she must’ve probably done something here?"
To Raine’s surprise, her twin sister wasn’t convinced that her daughter would travel back in time simply to see how her parent’s love story unfolded. Mara insisted that Aire must’ve done something without them knowing.
Raine unconsciously caressed her tummy as she mused, ’Is your Aunt right, Aire? Did you change something here in the past?’
Nathan didn’t comment on the suspicion as he turned to Raine. Both of them had eyes filled with worry as they stared at each other.
By the sidelines, Mara probably noticed their weariness as the latter said, "Oh, maybe I’m just thinking about it too much. I’ve stayed on that isolated island for twenty-three years, then add two more years in an enclosed facility to make sure that I’m ready in all aspects to face the outside world."
She added, "And now, it’s been three years since I started living a normal life with people... I just can’t help myself but overthink most of the time!" She then looked at Nathan and said, "Brother-in-law, shall we start the past viewing now?"