He asked why. They answered; “We don’t know for sure. The last commander told us to do it, so here we are. It seems to be a tradition of some sort...”The new commander called the old one to ask what the reason was, and the previous commander said; “I don’t know. The commander before me had guards on the bench, so I just kept it going.”After contacting three previous commanders as well, and still getting the same answer, the new commander finally found a retired General (nearly 100 years old) and. That I had only moments leftto do something.My mind raced till I found the solution. I needed to create my owntimeline. Right here, at the earliest point that the darkness was willingto travel. If I created my own branch here then maybe I was overlooked. Tocreate one I needed to do something that would have an impact. Somethingto alter the events to follow.Still thinking I collapsed to my knees. The strength left my young body.Just before I fainted I was sure the darkness had found me.I woke up. Ugh.She pulled out a handful of the damnable papers from the box and held the first one up to read.Seriously, I know all the ideas, just go with Vin’s. -Don.Alaina rolled her eyes and tossed the slip into the bucket. She picked up the next sheet.Not even kidding, they get worse. -Don.She sighed deeply, pressing a hand to her forehead. She looked into the box, seeing that it was still about a quarter of the way full. Maybe he’s right? What if ... What if I just didn’t read all of them? She took. The cavern looked rather large and I looked around to see where the entrance was.I dropped my things and made my way up to the entrance. As I stepped out, I could see that the entrance was hidden. Unless you knew that the entrance was there, it looked like solid rock. In fact, it was two pieces of rock, with a small path between that turned left and went down into the cave. Due to the position facing south, as well as the rocks that surrounded it, there were never any shadows generated by the.