"I—I promise—"

She flutters back to the top of Sadde's head.

"Then let's go find them."

She nods. She takes a bit to compose herself, and goes up again.

And her aura glows and reaches into the vast darkness of the universe and takes her to a door that opens to a barren asteroid. No sign of anything interesting around, but she can collect the rock and snow for later. The next door leads to the Saturnian rings, she can collect material from there too. The next door takes her to a planet.

Rocky, inhabited planet?

Yup, she landed above the open ocean but ways over there there is a school of manta rays.

Sapient species?

Here they are! They are short humanoids with colorful hair which determines what sort of magic they get (mostly the ability to conjure things like water, plant matter or metals at small quantities). Sadde recognizes this world, she visited what was likely a future version of it before.

Well then. She has some work to do, doesn't she?

Yes, yes she does.

--

On a planet with crystals on its beaches an old woman tells her grandchildren about the visitor that created their majestic garden. They don't believe her, but she just smiles at them and tells them to get ready for supper.

She is tired and decides to take a quick nap. Ana Luzia doesn't open her eyes again.

--

People are making fun of Sam because of what happened with Sadde. Which is hardly that much of a change of pace.

At least he no longer feels cold. That sort of blessing can never be overstated at The Wall.

--

On an Earth in the nineties things proceed as normal.

--

A sentient goo-ocean is still really curious about that very weird creature that appeared and bounced off it for a time before disappearing, even this many centuries later.

--

The spaceship is parked in orbit, still too scared to land because of the spiders.

--

This is a very happy fox on their way to the bank who made quite a profit today, if in a bewildering way.

The fox turns the corner and collides with a homeless person.

A guard comes over and threatens the poor man with a baton. "Please, stop. It was entirely my fault," the fox says. "Also, sir, I think this is yours."

"Oh, thank you," the homeless person accepts the platinum coin and the two go their merry way as the third sun sets.

It was a small fortune, but in this fox's opinion sometimes you just have to change people's lives when fate gives you the opportunity.

--

This is the worst moment of his life. And that says something.

He is the richest and most powerful man in the world. Living in his castle and living a hedonistic lifestyle, he is certain there isn't someone that doesn't hate him with their very soul, thinking that he caused their predicament.

Pain if you don't behave well. And an effect that makes people act like they are not in pain so people wouldn't suffer if their doctor was writhing in agony somewhere. A couple of very stupid wishes. So fucking stupid. An endless cycle of pain because the second wish still makes you behave like you did before including misbehaving.

Outwardly the world looks normal, but every adult suffers progressively increasing agony.

Including himself, because he didn't word himself out.

And this is the worst day of his life.

The richest and most powerful man in the world kisses the forehead of his newborn. The magic doesn't give him any option. Inside, he tries to do something, to kill his own child and spare him of the suffering.

But he can't.

--

Doctor Malek watches his biography on the spaceship screen. It really is an honor to have a movie about him at all...

...but it is okay to be bothered by the changes. And this scene bothers him a lot. The night his sister died was a turning point in his life and sure that beautiful stranger that ignored them in the rain - while he carried poor Hanifa - was memorable. But Malek never gave her enough importance to make a speech about how he forgave her.

Well, it made for a good scene at least. And maybe it would be good for the doctor's soul to exercise a little forgiveness. Allah would certainly find this graceful.

--

She isn't very lucid, too much cold, too much pain. Her thoughts are simply too nonsensical. And amidst all that her mind turns to dark things.

Maybe she was really worthless. She was never pretty. Never thin. Never anything valuable.

No wonder that beautiful girl left her behind.

She can't feel her tears and soon she doesn't feel anything.

--

A bacterium from another world was brought here on Sadde's shirt. Billion of years later life is thriving.

--

On the planet that is the cradle to the most ancient sapient species of its universe, Killala of the Glow looks up as the sun sets.

There is a knock at the door. It opens as she turns.

"Ganthet?" she says, facing her fellow scientist. "What brings you here?"

"I have been thinking about that story that you told. About the otherwordly visitor?"

"It happened."

"I believe you," Ganthet says fiddling with his datapad. "I saw the crushed ring and studied."

"Oh?"

"It's fascinating and while it works through magic some of the principles can be adapted to work through the emotional spectrum. In fact, I have been so inspired that I have - a side project that I wanted to show you."

He shows her the files under the title "Project Green Lantern".