> Shrug.
> "Who can say? I certainly won't try. But for one, the fact remains that we were responsible for one of Gensokyo's more major incidents, and for two, I cannot really guarantee my interactions with people will not be at least subtly altered by knowing what becomes of them many years down the road, however much I may try to pretend this never happened."
>"I think you can do it!" says Flandre. "You're one of the most elegant and thoughtful people I know!"
>"The possibility does exist that something could go wrong," Shou says.
>Tojiko has a sip from her cup. "The universal tao is stronger than any one person's reach. What can be definitively changed, I am sure, is much closer to her personally."
>"But could she not influence others, who then influence others in turn," says Shou.
>"A pebble may create great ripples when dropped in a lake," says Tojiko, "They may seem to reach far, but they disturb only the surface. I do not think she would have the power to change things, not without trying very hard."
>_