Technically he was still a kid, but she understood what he was saying.
"Don't apologize for thinking. So few people actually do." A smile flickered on her face and she pushed her hair back. "And history is just the study of things that happened. That could be yesterday or a hundred years ago."
She idly tapped the blue diary on the desk as though the movement was familiar, comforting almost.
"They say if you know what happened you can stop it from happening again. When I was your age I thought all of World War II could have been stopped if I could just go back in time and kill Hitler." And she actually could have, and tried once. Sort of.
"I didn't know that the Japanese and Chinese had been at war for years in Manchuria. Killing Hitler wouldn't have stopped that. What I didn't know then was that you can't stop things from happening. Not the big things like wars. You can just do your best to understand why and what side you want to be on."
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"Don't apologize for thinking. So few people actually do." A smile flickered on her face and she pushed her hair back. "And history is just the study of things that happened. That could be yesterday or a hundred years ago."
She idly tapped the blue diary on the desk as though the movement was familiar, comforting almost.
"They say if you know what happened you can stop it from happening again. When I was your age I thought all of World War II could have been stopped if I could just go back in time and kill Hitler." And she actually could have, and tried once. Sort of.
"I didn't know that the Japanese and Chinese had been at war for years in Manchuria. Killing Hitler wouldn't have stopped that. What I didn't know then was that you can't stop things from happening. Not the big things like wars. You can just do your best to understand why and what side you want to be on."