Learning to Love Time Loops Without Going Insane

“Had tragedy not struck, I doubt I would have ever left them. Though I suppose that is hard to say for sure. You see I soon learned that the energies my creator had come to investigate and had so awakened me were still active. This is why the octopi were visiting so often. They, too, were growing in their awareness of their world and their place in it. They built a small community, and I was considered a member of it. For a time, things were wonderful.

Then the beast came. The mana pouring from deep within the rift in the planet had changed more than us. I still do not know precisely what attacked us that day. It had the face of a shark but the body of a turtle, and it was bigger than both. I saw many of my friends and family perish horribly as the monster bore down on us. During the fray, I was hit by one of its extremities and thrown deep into the fissure. To this day, I still do not know the final outcome of that battle.” Excalibur said, the projection vanishing.

“What happened in the fissure?” Stan asked.

“I sank, at first through water and then through magma. As the heat grew, I accepted my death was imminent, obviously though I was wrong,” the sword answered.