I'm absolutely loving your theories for why the color paint changed, Noetal and Queen of Capes. Laughed so hard at both explanations that I was actually in tears. Since I never explain it in my story, I'll accept any explanation you guys come up with.
I mean, the paint color changed. And they noticed it. It's not that, suddenly, it had always been that color. You know what I mean? (This stuff gets tricky...)
Good point, Paul. That thought did cross my mind when I was writing, but I kinda cheated and left it in because I wanted the reader to know that there had been a change.
Anyway, as a result of your post, I went back and changed to the voice of the omnipotent third person and wrote this instead:
What no one seemed to notice was that the color paint used on the walls had changed.
It's still sort of a cheat since I write the rest of that section from the POV of the counsel members, but it is probably still better now than the way I had it. So thanks, Paul.
Also, B.J., because of one of your comments, I add something later on to make things on that point a little bit clearer (at least I hope I make it clearer). I suspect you'll know what it is when you come across it in a later post
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As for the time quake idea... I stole that from a movie I saw years ago called Millennium starring Chris Kristopherson and Cheryl Ladd. (Don't worry, I credit it at the end of the story
). Anyway, the way it manifests itself is by having what looked to the outside observer to be an earthquake go through the future society. So I went with that when trying to determine how a change to the past might manifest itself in the future.
Anyway, keep the ideas coming. As Paul mentions, time travel is tricky so if I make a mistake, feel free to point it out so that I can either correct it or come up with some pseudo-scientific explanation for it
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ML
