"I don't know. They didn't tell me a whole lot about it." He's thought about this a lot, though. Both the future Kalim and the future Jamil kind of acted like it was bound to happen, just an inevitable fact of life – something they both grew out of – but he doesn't want to say that out loud because it upsets him too much. "Vaeros made everyone feel really happy and safe no matter what, though. I think maybe that's why? If they both really, really felt like everything was safe, then the older you wouldn't have to worry about anything happening to the older me, right? So he could leave and not feel bad."
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"I don't know. They didn't tell me a whole lot about it." He's thought about this a lot, though. Both the future Kalim and the future Jamil kind of acted like it was bound to happen, just an inevitable fact of life – something they both grew out of – but he doesn't want to say that out loud because it upsets him too much. "Vaeros made everyone feel really happy and safe no matter what, though. I think maybe that's why? If they both really, really felt like everything was safe, then the older you wouldn't have to worry about anything happening to the older me, right? So he could leave and not feel bad."