Thus Spake Zaraborgstrom/AvoidanceKataDemons

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Avoidance Kata is kind of an odd duck. (*cough*) Note that it doesn't actually change the past---fate doesn't do that. What Avoidance Kata is is a message to the Loom of Fate in the *now* saying, "Oh, by the way, I foresaw this, and I'm not here."

And it's true.

As far as anyone can prove. (See "On Memory", p. 131.)

The demon, if high enough rank to be outside of fate, will remember the first few seconds of the fight. It will be aware---if intelligent enough to grasp the idea---that the Sidereal decided retroactively that she was never there.

Others watching the fight will remember the first few seconds, but, well, obviously they were confused, since it's transparently clear that the Sidereal was never there.

For most practical purposes, she wasn't!

People remembering her there is the controlled equivalent of the glitches in fate you get when the loom snarls---you know, the ones where people drown after being pulled out of the lake, or get hacked into pieces and wake up the next morning perfectly fine.

Rebecca