A Dark Reality

Me and Tara were exhausted after yet another long day of hunting and gathering materials. We set up a campfire and wanted to relax for the evening, but then I began to remember things...

"Tara, I just remembered something," I told her. "When we were drifting through time after we entered the portal, I remember the voice telling us that my existence was threatened."

"Now that you brought it up, I do remember the voice saying that too," she replied. "I'm not sure how your existence would be threatened though."

"I don't know either, Tara," I said. "However, it might be related to when the voice said that you never made it to the present."

"I never made it to the present... I wish I knew what that meant, Ricky," Tara said. "I do remember hearing the voice saying that too though, and it scares me."

"It scares me to think about it too, Tara," I replied. "If we came to this future time and world from a world built upon the past, then what even is the world of the present?"

"It sure doesn't sound like a nice place that's for sure," Tara said. "The only memories I have are of life in Willow Creek and the new memories that are being created by living life in this time and world."

"Same here," I replied. "I can remember bits and pieces from my childhood and other parts of my life, but besides Willow Creek and here, everything else just seems so dark or erased."

Tara looked up at the stars and took a deep breath. "If time really did bring us to this future world from a world of the past, I wonder if it could also bring us to that place called the world of the present."

"I don't know, Tara," I said. "I'm not sure if I'd ever want to go there either..."

Thinking about the so-called world of the present just completely disturbs me. What did the voice mean when it said that my existence was threatened? What did the voice mean when it said that Tara never made it to the world of the present? Tara, the girl I first saw back in 1992 at the Blue Velvet and fell in love with, the girl who I am supposed to marry. What would happen to her if time brought us to the world of the present tomorrow? What would happen to me? This is just too much to think about...