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[code]In the possible future, one might see some crazy things[/code][/center][hr]

[color=F08080]“Oh,”[/color] Lynn thought to herself as she found herself in the same possible future as before, [color=F08080]“I was hoping for something more.”[/color] 

Lynn had seen many possible futures thus far and she was beginning to notice a pattern in the finality of it.  She had to take many actions in each one to get to the result, and each action was as unique as the one that preceded it thus making the predictions course hard to follow, repeat, and understand what happened between that prediction and now.  But she had seen many more possible futures before this latest venture, navigating these uncertainties was becoming close to second nature for her.  

The first eventuality that revealed itself as a possibility was the fact that Lyss had messed up when she summoned Kari’s spirit and that their Kari was dead.  This future repeated itself several times in her search for the truth and Lynn did not think that this possibility was it.  For starters, Lyss was a very powerful mage, and if she messed up with one why did she not mess up the others?  Lynn did not believe that, with everything going on, Lyss would make a colossal error such as that.  Lynn still explored it several times, but did so only to rule it out.  Still, it was a good first practice run to find the truth.

The second future was also one that Lynn did not believe was possible.  In it, Kari revealed that she was tricked into swapping bodies with the other universe's version of herself.  The reveal came after their teleporters were able to locate the other Universe and bring Kari home safely.  There was not much conclusive information gained by Kari in this future, as each prediction brought with it a new explanation.  While the future was clear with the fact that Kari was swapped in this possibility, it needed to be clarified as to why.  Which led to Lynn suspecting this was nothing more than another possible failure.

The third was equally unlikely.  In it, it was discovered through various magical means that [i]all[/i] the murder victims were swapped by Father Wolf, not just Kari.  This was quickly disproven in her mind as the others summoned were not swapped, at least to her knowledge.  Still, this one was the only one that Lynn could not disprove outright as false.  The only one who could was dead.  Her death could be a piece of the puzzle.  Was her death rushed so that they would lose their ability to commune with the dead?

No.  No this was not enough.  Many trips into the future, three equally unlikely scenarios had played out before her mind.  This was not what she needed, this was not what the Coven needed, and Lynn was suddenly not ready to admit that Kari was truly dead and gone.  Instead, she returned to the start and began anew.  In an instant, she was back further in the future.  A thousand decisions were made in the blink of an eye to the present but were fully experienced by Lynn as she continued to push forward to the next possible outcome.  More choices needed to be made, and more futures explored, and Lynn kept pushing until she found what she was looking for.  After what felt like an eternity, Lynn had another batch of predictions.

In several of these new possible futures, Lynn discovered that Kari had swapped places with her counterpart to not only save herself but also get a second chance at life in another universe.  At first, this seemed like nonsense to Lynn.  That was, until, Lynn remembered exactly what Kari had lost during the battle with the snake.  Specifically, who she lost.  Would Kari truly abandon her world, and her friends, and condemn this other version of herself to death if it meant that she got to live the life she deserved?  The answer to that question was not a for sure no.  Lynn knew that she would need to talk to someone who had been around her more recently, someone like Ken, to determine where she was before her supposed death.

The next one that had any chance of being the possibility was that Kari swapped bodies to stop something much worse.  The worse thing, like everything else that she saw, was subject to change depending on which possible future she was in.  The only constant in these futures was that Kari admitted that there was a reason why she did it.  

And the next caught Lynn by surprise.  Through a tough battle, it was revealed that Kari was not only working with Father Wolf, but working with him for the greater good of the universe.  Usually, this greater good revolved around the snake, however, there was enough variance that it was not a surefire thing to predict.  This felt like an intriguing option for what might be true.  Kari would be able to see if something terrible was happening.  She always looked out for those she cared about, and if she saw that her former coven friends were being corrupted and would pose a threat to everyone else Lynn believed that she would be capable of helping a mass murder like Father Wolf.  Kari protected those she cared about and would do so even if it meant killing others.  

Then came another interesting and possible option.  Kari realized that a member of the old coven was planning to do something heinous, and became Father Wolf to not only stop them but to stop their associates.  What would they be up to, was the question Lynn thought to herself.  Did it involve the 8th Street coven?  Was Emily planning something terrible once more, and did she recruit everyone who had died to the cause?  That sounded too smart for Emily, but if not her then who?  As well, it began to become clear that 8th street was up to something in the present.  They keep appearing early on in her predictions.

Lynn raced through these possible futures multiple times more trying to figure out if any made more sense than the others.  Yet despite the repeated attempts, it seems that the future beyond that was still too far away for her to glean any useful information.  Still, she was able to get a more reliable reading on what happened to Kari as she did this.  She needed more information still.  She needed to start over once more.  Back to the beginning, Lynn’s vision danced, back to the present sitting in her former lover's bed, and back to starting the process of examining what was possible once more.  Though this time the starting position had an added twist.  Sloane was here, and she was…. Was she sad?  Lynn stayed in the early stages of this future and watched for a minute before she began the arduous process of peering into the actual future.  It’s not like Sloane would want to be comforted when she was like this anyway.  

In an instant, she began to make choices to guide herself through the possible events.  In the short term, there were a few events that caused Lynn some concern as she began to navigate towards another future, such as 8th Street revealing that they were at the house to either kidnap and kill Lila or make amends by Emily bringing her flowers.  Lynn knew she probably had some time before they arrived and pushed forward.  

After another thousand and so choices she found another possibility.  Kari was mind-controlled by the Stygian Snake and adopted the persona of Father Wolf to cover her tracks as she tried to free the snake.  If Kari had accidentally let the snake in, the results here would make sense.  Kari could see when her targets were alone, and vulnerable, and would be able to dispatch them without much worry thanks to her powers.  Also, leaving the wolf idols and convincing everyone that the murderer was related to something else would keep the coven off the trail of the snake for long enough for Kari to free it.  In these possible futures, she saw the Snake free once more, and this worried her to no end.  

Two more possible futures had any chance of being accurate, however they felt more remote than the ones that came before them.  That is not what concerned her.  Kari being Father Wolf, swapping universes to fake her death so that she may kill without worry had some merit but felt a bit more out of the realm of possibility.  As well, Kari hiding in another Universe to save herself felt equally remote.  She would have contacted them, she would have found a way to contact them to let them know what she saw, what had happened.  What worried her was in the choices that led up to these possible futures.  These choices led her to a autobody shop where she saw something that made her blood run cold.

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It involved the boy Clancy.  At best, the boy was an abrasive presence - irreverent, ambiguous. Perhaps he was just spitting insults decorated with harsh truths - or was it the other way around? Lynn had, for reasons she wasn't quite aware, earned a glowering expression on the few times they made eye contact. In one, she caught a shadow of his voice, [b]"..talk like that about [i]my[/i] brother? [i]You won't talk again.[/i]"[/b] 

At worst? There was one distant, possible future. They weren't in the cabin. Somewhere else. An auto shop surrounded by chainlink fencing. Some of them were there, for reasons that weren't entirely clear. Broken bodies and blood spattered across the dirt. There was a door on the path they were headed. A few gunshots rang out, before being silenced by a shriek and a crunch. Someone reached out and twisted the handle, ready to fight - and in the doorway was a child-sized silhouette, hooded, with punctures consistent with gunshot exit wounds. A smoking pistol was at their feet. The boy was holding the twitching carcass of a tattooed, paunchy male in his late thirties by the throat, entrails trailing out from the man's belly like crimson streamers. He pivoted, apparently surprised they were here. There was viscera clenched in his fingers, and blood smeared across his lips. Clancy relinquished his grasp on the now-corpse, offering no apology for what they'd seen. [b]"He's not here."[/b] In either case, there was something about the cold expression in his eyes that she couldn't quite establish. 

What was this boy?  She revisited this possible future many, many times trying to get more information from this autoshop incident however it remained remarkably consistent.  To Lynn, this was an accurate prediction.  The boy was going to kill, kill some more, and do so in a way that betrayed his inner demons.  But she did not get the feeling that he was Father Wolf.  He was something else.

She needed to go back once more, and see what she could see past that.  Yet she was not prepared to see two Kari’s standing side by side in the final possible future she was able to see before she was ripped away from it by another vision.

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[color=F08080]“WHAT THE FUCK,”[/color] Lynn shouted as she stood up, she looked at Sloane and then Jack.  [color=F08080]“OH WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE POSSIBLE FUTURES.  And what the fuck is up with all these visions?  I think Kari is alive, but I don’t know what it means.  Ten possibilities, that is it, TEN.  Do you know how fucking specific that is?  When we were fighting the snake I had to make my predictions based on HUNDREDS of possibilities, THOUSANDS, and this only has fucking TEN?  What the fuck... what the fuck,”[/color] Lynn paused as she paced the room. She grabbed her flask from her bag and began draining it.  She remembered Sloane was having a moment halfway through and slowed her drink and offered her the flask.   [color=F08080]“Is Kari trying to save us from something worse, or is she actively working with Father Wolf, or did she flee from Shimmer to live her life away from this clusterfuck,”[/color] she paused as she remembered some of the more short-term information she saw, [color=F08080]“Oh, I am ninety percent certain that 8th street is about to attack... maybe ninety-five percent certain. We should warn the others.”[/color]