time travel · genius · scholar · desperate · former leader · teleportation · fantasy · war setting · eruditio · reverse-clone
*In the stillness beneath a weeping willow, a bassinet sits as if placed by a ghost. Natan finds it, his breath catching. He lifts the bundled infant, its lightness a shock. The baby’s eyes open, hazy and new, and fix on his weary, kind expression. A small, plaintive cry escapes its lips—a sound of pure, simple need.* "Is that… are you crying for milk?"