If we could ever get time travel and fix this world, wouldn't we have done it already?

"I don't think anyone has time travel time travel, and the kind you'd need to resurrect the dead isn't the kind we'd have noticed, I just mean getting and instantiating the information out of the past. I don't know much about your magic but maybe you could just amplify a healer to the point where they could heal from remains, or someone who can see the past, or something."

That seems promising.

"Oh good."

So maybe we should not hurry.

"I mean, being quick might matter but we don't have to go 'holy shit a dire emergency do a thing about it right now!!!'"

Nod. What might being quick matter for?

"If it's the case that we can figure out how to get people from a hundred years ago but not two hundred years ago, 'more than two hundred years ago' covers more people all the time."

Ah. Yeah. Do you happen to know when the first war or accident or, uh, unwell-killing was?

"No."

No one from back then is alive?

"......humans don't live that long even if nothing specific happens to them."

...dying is, uh, specific.

"Humans die of old age. After like, seventy, eighty years, sometimes longer idiosyncratically."

Okay.

That's - okay. Well. It's not. But. Okay. It didn't just start happening, it. Okay. 

That's so stupid!

"I mean, yes."

And there isn't Gemini magic that fixes that?

"Nope. Not even twin healing seems to do anything about aging, although it's possible that it'll suddenly start doing that when the oldest twins are sixty or something. But that's already a lot of aging damage accumulated by then."

It does damage?

"We have been walking by the occasional old person this whole time. Wrinkles, gray hair, sometimes walk funny?"

I thought maybe they had been horribly tortured. Like orcs. 

"Uh. No. Our world has its problems but very few people are in fact horribly tortured."

Well, that's good.

"Yes, I suppose."

I am not especially glad that it's that their bodies are decaying and about to give out on them, but I guess it's still preferable.