At that moment, Li Wei seemed to finally understand where Sylvie's seemingly "Greater Prophecy"-like "precognitive ability" might have come from.
Perhaps, like this Githyanki before them, she too had, in some trance-like state brought on by void corruption, glimpsed one possibility of the future amid the chaotic torrent of time here?
But that wasn't right either!
Sylvie hadn't come here yet at that time.
No!
Li Wei suddenly recalled what Malkanth had said: when she and Sylvie first met, Sylvie appeared to have been severely injured, and her body had also been eroded by psionic energy.
Could it be that she had actually come here once before?!
That was the only explanation that made sense.
"The future? That is the future of us Githyanki? No. How could it be like this? No, something must be wrong..."
Ever since Li Wei had told him the "truth," Zanad had remained in a dazed state, following behind Li Wei while muttering endlessly to himself.
Though, to be fair, with that hollow, life-questioning look about him, he actually resembled those deranged Silver Lizards a little more.
Li Wei had never personally been robbed by Githyanki, but he had heard from Kike and the others about the miserable fate of Carlos's Mind Flayer colony:
They had neither provoked nor offended anyone. They had even stayed tucked away in the Astral Plane, single-mindedly climbing the lost technology tree of their Mind Flayer kind, toiling day and night until they had practically attained the realm of living without food.
Of course, Astral Plane creatures had already reached the point where they would not starve to death even if they went without eating for long periods. They could not even feel the passage of time; only upon returning to the Material Plane would they face time's "Reckoning."
Yet