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CURSE SONG OF THE SPRITES

We're not there, that's just air, that glimpse of wing you saw right there.
That dying cow, that wasn't us, so don't you cuss, and don't you dare
Cross-the-sprites-and-curse-their-spite-and-make-your-hand-a-stony-fist.
You can't punch us, we don't exist, we're only mist,
And that was just the wind that hissed.
We don't care, and we weren't there, and for a dare, we would never snap that chair
And-leave-it-looking-like-it-was-perfectly-all-right-and-wait-for-someone-big-and-fat-and-old-to-put-their-lardy-fat-behind-on-it-and-SMOOSH-BANG-HA-HA-HA-!-SMASH-!!!-the-entire-thing-shatters-into-tiny-smithereens-and-then-they-lay-land-upon-the-stony-floor-and-break-their-jaw-and-fuss-and-roar-and-cry-until-they-cry-no-more…
And that was not the eerie sound of fairy laughter when they cried. And if they said it was, they lied.
That dying child, that wasn't us, so don't you cuss, and don't you dare
Cross-the-sprites-and-curse-their-spite-and-make-your-hand-a-stony-fist.
You can't punch us,
We don't exist,
We're only mist,
And that was just the wind that hissed.

...
If he could have seen all that, would Xar have wanted to turn back time, even though that is impossible?
Possibly.
But...
Looking into other people's lives when they are not right in front of you, is also impossible...
Probably.
I say "probably" because turning back time and looking into other people's lives when they are not right in front of you, are both things that require the kind of Magic that we call "imagination". Xar had not developed that kind of Magic yet, any more than he could move objects with the sheer power of his mind, or fly without the helpful addition of wings.