from the point of view of a token man who is meant to be fighting the war defies the use of his power and instead chooses to go back into the distant past to escape the terrors of the future.

Part 1 - Avoidance

• token fighting in archeston and winning in final defeat. then in a sick of it manner turns around and leaps off teh edge of archeston falling for a while, eventually character uses a glider to descend and lands on the surface.
• token then grounds self and looks back at city and then turns away happily abandoning duty. then after a moment token uses power and goes back in time. token vists various stages that all mostly look alike, desolate shitty desert and nothing around. again and again and again.
• subtle moment of a shell being found on the surface
• eventually gives up in the middle of the desert walking down a highway (post apocalyptic sci fi world) man notices taxi and pulls it over, it is a self sustainable ai taxi that has been out of work for many years. talks and kinda befriends ai robot taxi and gets a trip along the deserted desert highway for a long time before finally. “what year is it” “idk” “great”.
• eventually after traveling for sometime he spots a random house that they pass by. he tells the taxi to stop stop and gets out it. he then slowly walks over to the house somehow remembering it and reminiscing nostalgically like he has seen it before. brief glimpse flashes happens as though he has been here. he then walks out in a flat desert field near the house and steps into a certain spot. he looks around feeling like he has been here. a brief quick flash of a corn field as though it were here glimpses. he then looks up at the waiting taxi and then looks back down at the ground and his hand and then moves through time suddednly arriving at the home of his family when he was younger.

Eventually, he comes across a small family that is kind to him. He realizes it is his family—himself as a young boy, his mother, and his father, whom he misses dearly but were killed after the war. His father left him as a boy, so he never got to know him properly and only has bad memories of him.

He stays with the family for a while, continuing to reminisce about the past. He enjoys conversing with them and helping out on their farm. However, he starts to notice signs that the young boy (himself) is being punished a lot by his father. This subtly distresses him, but he forces himself not to get involved. We realise this man has a history of physical abuse as a kid by his father which we’re now reliving. One night, he is sleeping in his guest room when he hears the mother and father arguing over the son. Suddenly, the mother starts screaming, and the father, sounding furious, says he always has to teach the boy the same lesson. He grabs the boy and drags him away, and the boy screams for him to let go. The mother yells, “NO! NO! Don’t you dare hurt my boy! Let him go now! I swear to God, [father's name]! Leave him alone! I’ll kill you!” A door slams and locks—the basement door where the father has just dragged his son.

Hearing all this, the man suddenly gets up and marches out of his guest room, down the stairs, and toward the living room where the basement door is. The mother is on the other side, sobbing and pounding against the door, praying for her boy not to be hurt. The man appears behind her, grabs her by the shoulder, and pulls her back. He takes a step back and kicks the door's hinge inward, sending it flying open. As he descends the stairs, memories of the place flood back to him—the trauma of being down there as a boy and being abused. This is a place of his nightmares. He eventually reaches the boy and saves his younger self by taking down his father. He beat’s his father close to death while telling the boy to look away. He then drags the father out into the woods in the midst of the night and then walks away leaving him there to supposedly die. This helps us understand how his father left all those years ago.

He then runs away leaving the others and crashing out very upset.

Part 2 - Confrontation

time jump forward character living a modern-day life having a lot of fun.

they attempt to avoid their duty, not grappling with the weight of responsibility. occasionally seeing glimpses of the hartez and stuff building up time moving toward the inevitable war.

the first time he encounters his future self the guy walks right up to him in a bar when he is facing away talking with his friends and taps him on the shoulder and confronts him he has a duty to return to.

his future self is the one that is tracking him down and telling him he has to go back.

character gets on a train stares blindly out the window and goes all the way to the end of the line. then crosses to the other line, gets on and goes all the way to the other end.

“if you let me convince you then that’s proof you can fix it”

“your going back (name)”