Ireth
Myth Weaver
This might seem more of a sci-fi question than a fantasy one, but it isn't. The human characters in Summer's Pawn are in Faerie against their will, with the promise that they will be safely returned to their world after they fulfil the terms set out by the Kings of Faerie. The resolution of the story involves the humans being brought back to Earth on the day they were first taken away; they wish to return to a point in time some minutes before their arrest, to avoid having to deal with the enormous mess made by the Fae who had arrested them in the first place.
I might go the Harry Potter route, and have the returned humans try to avoid their future selves until time passes to the exact moment they were taken into Faerie, at which point the timelines would converge and the future selves of the humans would disappear, as in the movie of the third HP book. This may or may not be awkward; on the one hand, the future humans will be inside a house when they vanish, so probably no one would notice them doing so. As for the present humans, they'll be outside the house while they wait for time to pass.
What complicates the issue is that none of the humans know at exactly what time the Fae arrived to arrest them, or how long it took for the Fae to drag the humans out of the house and into Faerie after breaking down the front door. At least one of the humans has a watch, which stopped the moment they entered Faerie, but that only tells them what time they crossed the border between the worlds, not when the Fae initiated the arrest. What are your suggestions on dealing with this?
I might go the Harry Potter route, and have the returned humans try to avoid their future selves until time passes to the exact moment they were taken into Faerie, at which point the timelines would converge and the future selves of the humans would disappear, as in the movie of the third HP book. This may or may not be awkward; on the one hand, the future humans will be inside a house when they vanish, so probably no one would notice them doing so. As for the present humans, they'll be outside the house while they wait for time to pass.
What complicates the issue is that none of the humans know at exactly what time the Fae arrived to arrest them, or how long it took for the Fae to drag the humans out of the house and into Faerie after breaking down the front door. At least one of the humans has a watch, which stopped the moment they entered Faerie, but that only tells them what time they crossed the border between the worlds, not when the Fae initiated the arrest. What are your suggestions on dealing with this?