"Perhaps we do. But when you return to yours, it will be with an entire life lived that you hadn't had before. That changes the ending, even if the circumstances don't. Your story will be different forever now."

She still didn't know if it was any comfort to hear it, but it was her own experience. Not necessarily for the better, but not for the worst, either. She thought of Lir, she thought of wanting to remain human. She thought of regret.

"I left my own story once, in a way. It changed everything, even though I tried to go back to it."