Save The World.

Life is good. I'm happy.

I'm...

A waste of space.

"Chapter 2: Time and Forgiveness"

"Tim is off on a search to rescue the Princess. She has been snatched by a
horrible and evil monster. This happened because Tim made a mistake."

"Not just one. He made many mistakes during the time they spent together, all
those years ago. Memories of their relationship have become muddled, replaced
wholesale, but one remains clear: the princess turning sharply away, her braid
lashing at him with contempt."

"He knows she tried to be forgiving, but who can just shrug away a guilty lie,
a stab in the back? Such a mistake will change a relationship irreversibly,
even if we have learned from the mistake and would never repeat it. The
princess's eyes grew narrower. She became more distant."

"Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be miserly with
forgiveness. By forgiving them too readily, we can be badly hurt. But if we've
learned from a mistake and became better for it, shouldn't we be rewarded for
the learning, rather than punished for the mistake?"

"What if our world worked differently? Suppose we could tell her: 'I didn't
mean what I just said,' and she would say: 'It's okay, I understand,' and she
would not turn away, and life would really proceed as though we had never said
that thing? We could remove the damage but still be wiser for the experience."

"Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing together, giving
names to the colorful birds. Their mistakes are hidden from each other, tucked
away between the folds of time, safe."