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Right, so. Thought experiment. Bear with me here.

Let's say you got a chance to go back and change whatever that dumb shit you did was - you know, the point where everything went wrong, or you wish you would've done something differently. Only if you change that, that means erasing everything that ever happened after too, good or bad. Everything you're proud of, and all the friends you made.

Would you do it?

[ Hm. This sounds super specific and super suspicious! HE'S JUST GONNA... COUCH IT A LITTLE. ]

I met a really weird witch, fellas.

[ #nailedit. Which is to say: hello, everyone, one Magnus Burnsides is back in town and, ostensibly, acting as though he never left! ]

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Nah. Sometimes they're not part of who we are. Sometimes our choices aren't things that seem to mean shit-all until you learn what you could've been doin' instead.

[ That's not why he said no, though. He sighs, then shrugs. ]

Anyway, it ain't about me. If it was about me, I would've taken the chance - maybe you would've too. But when you go changing shit, you're changing it for more than just yourself.

Possibly, but the reasons we made them are part of the person we are.

[ She considers. ]

I'm not sure whether I would have taken it or not, in all honesty. There are -- many things that would make me wish to, but you are correct. Changing one choice can effect thousands, if not millions, of lives.

We do not get the luxury of knowing how many or how they are changed.

[ Magnus silently disagrees with that first part. Sure, that would count for some decisions - deciding not to kill Kalan for one. But that had never been on the table. What was was not going to that stupid competition, a decision that said very little about his character in the long run.

He regrets wanting it so bad he'd leave home, even for a few days. It feels foolish now. He's felt foolish about it for years. It had changed so much, and for what? A silly little title he never used. ]

No. Don't get me wrong, some decisions I figure could help people - maybe it'd make things ten times better than they were before. But that's for the kinds of people in charge of making big decisions. For regular people, changing one thing could affect, like, a dozen people at most.

[ Padme listens, mulls that over in consideration. ]

I understand that, certainly. It's --

[ She pauses, because these are things that without context don't make sense, and also things she holds close to her chest in most instances. ]

Sometimes there is an entire galaxy of people whose lives would change if yours did. It's a strange feeling, is it not? And you cannot know if it would in fact be better or worse for many of them. How do you make a choice like that for so many?

You can't. Or... you shouldn't. Not unless you're damn sure.

[ He heaves a sigh, shaking his head. ]

What you'd change - would it change the whole galaxy?

That is not, I think, something you can ever be truly certain of.

[ She hesitates, considers for a moment, her eyes on him evaluating, serious. ]

For decades to come, from what I can tell. Millions of lives. But there is no way to tell if things would be worse or better.

What about yours?

Whoof. [ He eyes her sympathetically. ] That's a lot of pressure to put on one person's shoulders. Kinda feels like one person shouldn't have to have all of that on 'em.

[ But she was honest - so he'll be honest too. ]

If I changed what I wanted to change, a lot of good people would be alive again. [ He shrugs. ] But there'd be a decent chance that even more would die.

I don't think that the people I'd save would be necessarily, uh, cool with that.

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