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He did not arrive in fire or thunder. Time does not announce itself when it breaks.
One moment the instruments held, the equations balanced; the next, the world stood
raw and unclaimed beneath a younger sun. The mission parameters were precise—
observe, confirm, return—but nothing in the brief could prepare him for the weight of
standing where history had not yet begun to think of itself as history.
They are not ancestors yet. They are possibility. Muscle and fear and curiosity bound
together by instinct, their voices sharp with alarm at the intrusion of something that
does not belong. They circle him, sensing difference without language, reading the
suit as both threat and miracle. He is careful not to move too quickly. Careful not to
teach them anything at all.
The suit hums softly, a cathedral of future knowledge wrapped around a single
human heartbeat. Inside it are libraries, star charts, models of civilizations that will
rise and fall before these beings ever learn to name the sky. Outside it, there is only
breath, soil, and the long patience of evolution waiting to be nudged—or not.
This is the true burden of the chrononaut: not survival, not discovery, but restraint. To
witness the raw draft of humanity and leave it untouched. To stand face-to-face with
the beginning and understand that even a gesture could echo forward for millennia.
He will return with proof that the past exists as more than theory. But what he carries
back, heavier than any data, is the knowledge that history is not a straight line—it is
a fragile crossing, where he must walk without leaving a footprint.
