16. Who would be able to spend centuries in misery waiting for the other to be reborn.
It wasn’t that they would be miserable years. They would simply be years; centuries - perhaps an epoch until the being known as Zigor Itzal would walk through a crowded market with a brilliant ribbon of red streaming from the hilt of a falchion. There, he knew the exact moment when a slender hand would reach for the scarlet banner and he would feel her again.
After all, Zigor Itzal had completed this loop 39,151 times. At the end, he and his counterpart would look at each other, nod, and return to the beginning of the loop to ensure it remained stable.
Zubeida would continue on outside of that loop to provide the world with the history it nearly lost.













