4 Reversing Time
After succeeding at accelerating time, I wondered if I could reverse it. Everything stopped for a moment - the clouds no longer moved, particles of ash hung in the air, and rain stopped - forming short slanted lines all around me - and then everything was undone. A brief moment of gathering occurred as all of the dirt and particles in the area coalesce and the mountain reformed.
Everything was reset. That's not quite what I wanted. Yes - the same end result was reached - I restored the mountain to how it was before I destroyed it, but that wasn't the point. The point was to control time to do and undo actions, and while I could "do" just fine, the "undo" was more of a restart than a reverse. I'll have to work on that.
Instead of experimenting with a mountain, I should try something easier and faster. A small, dry, wooden stick appears in my hands, and I break it over my knee. I imagine time reversing and the stick coming back together, but nothing happens. I imagine the stick back in one piece, and it appears back in one piece in my right hand. Okay, that's weird. Is it just impossible to reverse time? I don't quite understand. But I kind of reversed time with gathering all of the mountain back together...
New idea. I imagine the stick on the ground in front of me and a big heavy rock in my hands. I drop the rock on the stick and the stick breaks. Now I try to reverse it. This time, the stick forms back into one piece and the rock comes back into the point at which it left my hands, but then it freezes there. Why did the rock freeze there? It should have ended up in my hands when I was positioned like this. As I think that, the rock appears in my hands as I imagined. No, no, no! Powers, you are not helping right now! I put the rock back to how it was frozen in mid air. Stuck, I let it fall again. Then I reverse it back to its position. Repeating this process a few times, I still don't get it! How come when I do something, it freezes before it returns to me, but if I imagine it doing something, it reverses the process just fine!?
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I'm dumb. I figured it out. I'm the problem. My godly powers don't affect me. When I imagine something happening and then reversing when I'm not involved, everything is fine, but when I imagine reversing a process that involved me moving everything breaks down. It's pretty simple actually. When I imagine something, I am inherently imagining it from my view point, as if I was standing still. If I am imagining myself standing still, I can't also be moving to undo an action I did earlier. I take a deep breath. I'm so dumb. When I finally figured it out, it was pretty simple to test really. I threw a grey rock in the distance, froze time, walked about five feet backwards, and then reversed time. The rock went far away, rolling on the ground a few times before stopping, rolled in reverse, popped up into the air and went right back to where I was before I moved. I even got to see the rock disappear into whatever plane I called it out from. That was surprising. One moment, it had stopped where I had initially summoned it, and the next, it was just gone.
There wasn't any signs of disappearing or reappearing, no gates or portals, though I guess I could make those in order to make my summonings seem a lot more interesting. I did briefly open a portal to the ethereal plane of rocks and peeked my head in there for the rock that just disappeared, but I realized that I had just imagined that plane into existence and quickly exited.
