Challenge #04249-K231: Never Work Alone

I once thought that time was of no concern to me. Distance yourself from others and stay focused on your work. A few years or a few hundred… it’s all the same. But after all this, I’ve realized the perhaps this way of thinking is fundamentally flawed. The passing of time have its own consequences. The answer that I’ve been searching for amongst all those lives…

Perhaps it’s life itself. -- Anon Guest

Time, wise philosophers say, can make the world strange. That sort of thing only really happens when you're not living in it. Immortals at work on perfecting one singular thing will turn around twice and find themselves in another reality. The strange soup of time turns things around, yet some things remain unchanging no matter how many centuries passed.

Neless had been working on the omni-cure so long that ze had lost track of which millennium it was, which war was raging, or even which polities were running the majority of the world.

Hir work on Panacea came to a halt from the lack of experimental ingredients, so now ze had to wander the world once more. Seeking that which worked, and that which ze hadn't tried yet. A general survey of known herbs, magic, and remedies was in order. So too was a distribution of hir discoveries. All to further the greater good.

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