*steps through the time portal into 10 years ago*

Princess Alice

2007!Centie: Who the hell are you?

2017!Centie: Who do I look like, genius? I'm yourself, but from the future.

2007!Centie: Prove it.

2017!Centie: No time now. I've got some things to warn you about.

2007!Centie: Like what?

2017!Centie: I'm from the year 2017. Donald Trump is President of the United States, there's a successful series on The CW based on Archie—and no, it's not reruns of Sabrina—and, oh, you're a girl in the future. Named Alice after Alice in Wonderland.

2007!Centie: Nothing you just said makes any sense.

2017!Centie: Yeah, I know.

*beat*

2017!Centie: So I take it you don't believe me.

2007!Centie: Get out of here or I'm liable to treat you like I treated the racist neighbor.

2017!Centie: You'll kick me ineffectively in the shins?

2007!Centie: Oh god, it really is me.

*beat*

2007!Centie: So is it, like, guaranteed that—

2017!Centie: If I knew how to change the future, would I be here??

Yarrun XIX

Can we all do conversations with our past selves?

Princess Alice

Go for it!

Yarrun XIX

Yarrunmace: So, you finally made it back.

Yarrun XIX: Yep.

Yarrunmace: Are you here to give advice? Portents of doom? Or does everything just get so bad that you're going to kill me to spare me from going through it?

Yarrun XIX: Yeah, the whole 'killing yourself for the better good' thing is just going to get harder to justify in the future. And yes, that's a good thing.

Yarrunmace: So does that mean that things actually get better and there's no reason to do such a thing?

Yarrun XIX: <_<

Yarrunmace: ...

Yarrun XIX: Okay, fine, almost everything gets worse, and most things that don't just stay the same rather than getting better. But you'll meet just enough good people and achieve just enough self-fulfillment that you make a profit in the long run.

Yarrunmace: ...

Yarrun XIX: Look, if it was super bad, then I wouldn't be here, now would I? Now, do you want to listen to what you'll get to compose in 8 years?

Yarrunmace: Sure.