By me, with art by Sam Messerly.
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Let’s make this just a little more complicated. What if I leave the frozen kingdom and go to 2018, and another dinosaur, let’s say Thinkwilder, goes to 218 BC. Then time will travel the same speed for him in that time as it does in the frozen world, and the same time passes in my world of 2018. So if we both left the frozen kingdom at the same time, and we both lived in our respective “time zones” of 218 BC and AD 2018 for two weeks and then returned to the frozen world, we would return home at the same time, perhaps even bump into each other as we emerged through the portal. Thinkwilder’s theory—and this seems borne out by the data so far—is that if a dinosaur takes organic material out of the past at a specific time, and if simultaneously another dinosaur from the frozen world is living in the future and is synched up chronologically via frozen world time with the dinosaur stealing organic material in the past, then the organic material removed from the past disappears from the specific future that the future dinosaur is experiencing.
This is extremely difficult to explain, but basically Thinkwilder living in 218 BC in this scenario would be living at the same time as me living in 2018, at least in relation to time as experienced in the frozen kingdom. If Thinkwilder were to change the past in some large way, then that would have reverberating effects throughout history, but it becomes manifested specifically in 2018 because we are synched together via the frozen kingdom and our fates become intertwined through our mutual time slippage.
Let me put it one other way. We can imagine the frozen kingdom as a base world, okay? When someone leaves the frozen kingdom for your world, each time period that they go to is like a separate world—like Medieval Europe World and Wild West World and Crazy Future World. A dinosaur that visits any of these worlds would experience an hour, and that same hour would pass in the frozen world. So if someone visits Crazy Future World and spends an hour, and someone else visits Medieval Europe World and spends an hour at the same time, and then they both return to the frozen kingdom… then they will return to the same time in the frozen kingdom. However, Crazy Future World, Medieval Europe World, and Wild West World are all ultimately the same world, with the same set of matter, and so if something major is changed in any of those worlds, it affects the others according to the timeline of your earth, but those changes are funneled through the connections to the frozen kingdom somehow in such a way that the effects of the stolen matter are made manifest where and when other dinosaurs from the frozen world are living in your world.
What it boils down to is that the effects of changing your world hit the hardest at the points where your world and my world interact. Thus, if Thinkwilder takes a lot of organic material away to the frozen kingdom in 218 BC, that violent uprooting of organic material actually directly affects me and the people in 2018 because of our connection through the frozen kingdom. We don’t know why, but that is how the system works, and so the system creates victims who suffer greatly from the harvesting and mating programs of my people.
And no, I wasn’t in Final Pumpkin in 2015 when you lost your leg… but other dinosaurs were in your world at that time, such as that rebel you call Nessie over in Scotland. (Nessie isn’t a plesiosaur—he actually is a dinosaur, a runt camarasaurus with social anxiety.) Anyway, it just takes one of our kind living in your time to cause a lightning rod effect for the manifestations of what you call “the death virus.”
The “death virus” I am convinced is simply organic matter being stolen from your reality and pulled into the reality of the dinosaurs.