Rivers could be dammed. Rivers could be redirected. Rivers could be convinced through sufficient engineering to flow in directions they had not originally intended.
This was why so many monstrously powerful existences across the full sweep of history had dedicated themselves to controlling the weavings of existence or changing causality itself, believing that sufficient power applied at the correct point could redirect what was coming toward outcomes they preferred.
They rarely succeeded.
Because causality was not a river but an ocean, and oceans did not respond to dams by stopping. They responded by finding every available path around the obstruction simultaneously, distributing their momentum across a thousand alternative routes until the barrier became irrelevant to the destination being reached.
The harder one tried to go against an eventuality, the more pressure accumulated behind it, and the quicker that eventuality arrived when the resistance finally gave way.
