::: The alien language operates outside of linear time. As the MC is learning it she starts to develop an ability to perceive non-temporal existence. IIRC there’s a plot point that the daughter she mourns is not actually born yet at the time of the alien visitation etc.
The disjointed sense of time is an important plot point though.
It is?
Very much so
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::: The alien language operates outside of linear time. As the MC is learning it she starts to develop an ability to perceive non-temporal existence. IIRC there’s a plot point that the daughter she mourns is not actually born yet at the time of the alien visitation etc.
we're talking about the creator, not arrival
Damn, my bad. Got the threads mixed up