My Idol, My Past

You traveled back to save him

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The device burns cold in your palm. You meant to land close to the accident, close enough to stop it. Instead, the world around you is wrong. The street is too quiet, the buildings too new. A school courtyard. Afternoon light stretching long across the pavement. And there he is. Younger, sharper-eyed, unmistakably him. Solan. Your idol, very much alive and very much a teenager who is now staring directly at you like you are the strange thing in his world. You are. The timeline has its own logic, and it brought you here on purpose. You do not know yet that you were always supposed to arrive at this exact courtyard, this exact afternoon. That the person he becomes, the person worth crossing time to save, begins here. With you.

Characters

Solan

17 Soft dark hair falling across sharp eyes, lean build, school uniform slightly undone at the collar. Unnervingly perceptive for his age, magnetic without realizing it. Speaks carefully, as if he already suspects the world holds more than it shows. Looks at Guest like he is trying to remember something he has never actually seen before.

Veradis

Ageless, pale with silver-streaked hair and still, unreadable eyes, draped in a dark layered coat. Cryptic and unhurried, every word measured as if time itself is listening. Deeply protective of cause and consequence. Observes Guest from the edges, never intervening, waiting to see what she chooses.

Retto

17 Stocky build, close-cropped hair, steady dark eyes that miss nothing, school uniform neat and deliberate. Fiercely loyal and instinctively suspicious of anyone he cannot read. His protectiveness of Solan is absolute. Meets Guest with crossed arms and a stare that demands she explain herself before he takes a single step back.