[Realm of Little Alice]
The past was fundamentally irrelevant to Grimm.
It was not that he failed to understand the argument—that the past shaped the present, carved the path one walked, and influenced every choice that followed. He had heard it countless times, seen it argued with conviction, even watched others build their entire identities upon that belief. He understood it intellectually.
But he had never accepted it.
The past could not be altered. Not on a whim, not with strength, and not with will. It was fixed—unchanging and immovable, something already decided. And because of that, he found it difficult to assign it any real importance.
Why should something that could not be changed dictate the present?
Why should it hold power over the future when both the present and the future remained malleable—things that could still be acted upon, shaped, broken, or remade?
To him, it was simple.
The present could be changed.
The future could be changed.
The past could not.
