This is planning for a future scene in Glory in the Thunder
(850 years later… Ravelin is sobbing in the dark next to one of her history books.)
Eldin: Ravelin, bright star… what’s wrong?
Ravelin: Auntie Eldin… why is history so sad? Why is it so unfair?
Eldin, sitting down next to her: ohhhh darling… people write down the saddest, least fair things to help make sure they don’t happen again. Most people, in most times and places, were about as happy as we are now. … … … Ravelin della Miracola Galatti, have you been abusing the Aspect of Time again?!
Ravelin: how would I abuse it, by starting even more wars?!
Orland, leaning against the doorframe: You... can't actually touch anything, can you? You're not sneaking out to change time, right?
Ravelin: no, I'm not changing anything! Just learning! Starfall-era harps have eleven strings, by the way. I checked.
Eldin: That is the most fascinating thing I have ever learned while angry and disappointed. And I can't cite "my magical niece said so" in a paper.
Ravelin: I can bring you one! I don't think I could make it stick to the present very long, but a few hours at least!
Orland, facepalming: Ravelin, please don't steal anyone's harp from the past.
Ravelin: Obviously I'd send it back to the exact moment I took it! Just don't break it and they won't even notice!
Eldin: Ravelin, beloved... you know we decided we want to tell Katarosi in person that you... acquired an Aspect... (She tears up.) And I am dreading that quite enough without also having to tell her that you are dead or worse!
Ravelin: Dead? Tia, I'm fine! Nothing's happened, nothing's gonna happen!
Orland, crossing his arms: Nothing is going to happen because you are not going to do anything that would make your tia cry.
Ravelin, showing the bullet she wears on a necklace: I have my lucky bullet! You know, the one that froze in time because I'm the Goddess of Time. (nb: that happened years before she caught the star)
Eldin, baffled: That is not how causality w–
Ravelin: it is when you're the Goddess. of. TIME.
Orland: Wait, you stopped the bullet that was going to hit you but not the one that DID hit ME?
Ravelin: ... what bullet
Orland, lifting his shirt to show the scar: The one I took square in the gut saving your mother's life, THAT bullet!!!
Ravelin: WHAT? Nobody told me about THAT! How are you even alive?!
Orland: good... question...
Ravelin: Then maybe I did save you, or I will, as soon as I figure out when this was.
Eldin: He was saved by an evil goddess doing blood magic, and also HIS WIFE TAKING SUCH GOOD CARE OF HIM. I'M GLAD HE REMEMBERS.
Yes, Orland got buff, and yes he and Eldin are in a double-ace marriage. I wasn't anticipating the last bit of this scene, but when Ravelin pulled out her special lucky bullet, I thought to myself, I bet Orland wishes his bullet had been a little luckier, so... (It's pretty funny that Orland getting shot happened like literal minutes before the cut-off where Ravelin can't time travel so she theoretically could have interfered)