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forced me to find people like myself. I discovered other humans by accident, and once I saw how different I was from them, I tried to isolate myself from everything. But the feeling inside only grew stronger. That’s when I discovered my strengths.
     
                “It was those months spent alone that showed me what I could do. And then one day, the greatest power I have emerged. I tried to lift the largest thing I could find, but it wouldn’t budge. That’s when I noticed a way to enter the stream: trying to move the boulder caused a tiny hole to appear.”
     
                “A hole?”
     
                “Yes, as though the air was torn in two. It was big enough to walk through and when I did, I discovered that I could move through time as easily as I could breathe.”
     
                “Where did you go?”
     
                “I spent, what you would consider years, travelling across the stream, learning all I could to master the power. But the feeling never went away. The more I avoided people, the more I wanted to help them. And that was before I learned of all the wars, of the millions of ways humans have invented to inflict pain on one another.”
     
                Jadzia's mind drifted while Genesis spoke. She couldn’t help the flood of memories from the last six years from resurfacing, all of the torture and death she witnessed, pain so intense and suffering so acute that her stomach turned on end. She fought the images from her mind and addressed the awkward silence. “You mentioned last night that you are here to help me,” she said.
     
                “I’m going to take you back in time and help you fix a mistake from your life,” Genesis said plainly as she licked her fingers clean of the soup. Her eyes widened as she watched for Jadzia’s response.
     
                “That's easy: I want to see my parents again. But you've not told me why you came to me ?” Jadzia asked. “It couldn’t have been just to help fix the past.”
     
                “I came to a decision not long ago. I have a power that was given to me somehow. And even though I can’t explain all that I can do, I can still help. More than anything else, the one thing humanity has in common is a desire to fix a wrong from their past. They are always filled with shame and regret, self-loathing takes over and soon, they become paralyzed by hopelessness. Why should anyone have to live like that while I’m alive?
     
                “But that’s only partly the reason I came to you. You know you’ve made mistakes but you’ve never let that change the kind of person you are like so many others. There’s one thing you want though, and it is truly noble.”
     
                “I don’t understand,” Jadzia said.
     
                “Sure you do. You’ve spent the last six years of your life surviving unlivable conditions, surrounded by despair, with the threat of death all around you. Besides the people with unshakable faith in God, you stood out because you thought of others. While the women around you cursed their lives, you only wanted to see your parents again.”
     
                “How will I find them?”
     
                Genesis grinned. “Has it occurred to you that since I already know so much about you, I already know about them?”
     
                “Do you?” she asked.
     
                “Yes. Come with me.”
     
                Jadzia attempted to speak but the blue light enveloped them. They slipped into the stream of time and emerged a second later in a field of copper grass. As she looked around, she saw nothing but bare trees along the horizon in all directions and felt the crisp air gently touch her face. All over the fields were signs that autumn had gone and winter was near. She was naked, but since there was nothing to be seen