i. an empty wish

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves." - Pico Iyer

When the Wheel of Time starts to spin, and when the Strings of Fate start to tangle... it is when the spirits start to intervene. In which the story relies on both the humane and the supernatural. But here's the question...

Will Time be kind to them, or will Time be cruel to them?