I can't even separate the stages because there is no time loop without both of them. :D ♡♡♡
WELLLL, it would still be a time loop if ZYL afterwards didn't come back to the present! He has to be there eventually to make the videocalls to YOHE, but there could have been a gap between him leaving and him returning. Imagine if SW had been waiting in the wormhole, and then another, different wormhole had snatched ZYL away ... /o\
but now I'm pretty sure it's because he's alone?
Yeah, that really has to be a major factor. And I do think the injury itself hurts, whereas the healing may not hurt per se but merely ("merely") be a severe strain? If it's more than just ordinary scratches, it may not be easy to heal.
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WELLLL, it would still be a time loop if ZYL afterwards didn't come back to the present! He has to be there eventually to make the videocalls to YOHE, but there could have been a gap between him leaving and him returning. Imagine if SW had been waiting in the wormhole, and then another, different wormhole had snatched ZYL away ... /o\
but now I'm pretty sure it's because he's alone?
Yeah, that really has to be a major factor. And I do think the injury itself hurts, whereas the healing may not hurt per se but merely ("merely") be a severe strain? If it's more than just ordinary scratches, it may not be easy to heal.