Timeline

Hmmm, like doctor who I don't think we can get it till the stories over but here is what I *think* I know.

Folding time to change the past is forbidden unless approved.
That law does not apply to the mighty. They can interfere all they want in their mortal incarnation.

People with power feel the changes, others do not, for example, Lissa confronting Griffin in his past, he gained new memories in the future and knew a change had occurred.

I don't think there are alternate timelines or realities, that's why Lissa's human timeline is blocked, and why Brea couldn't go back farther than a couple of months after she left. They made that clear in the Lissa series, if a Raak goes and kills her as a human it would all be undone.

Merging timeline seems to me as being in two times at once, not different timestreams or realities.

As far as Bill goes that's easy, either he kept his mouth shut about her subjective future or he was compelled to forget after he got there. Remember she couldn't read him then, so couldn't read they already met in his past.

Hmmmm, could it be she can't read people she already met sometime in her own subjective future?

Damn, now I have a headache.

@David Wow, that just occurred to me too. It makes perfect sense doesn't it? That anyone who has had some kind of manipulation, wether that be mind cloud or memories changed, she can't read them. It certainly fits and is a brilliant theory, if only we could get Connie to confirm or deny. I'm off on a fishing run *grins wickedly*

One other thing to consider.... What if..... The one came into the picture as a fallback if any of the three fail? Sooooooooooo This would shake everything up! <snicker>

It makes perfect sense doesn't it? That anyone who has had some kind of manipulation, wether that be mind cloud or memories changed, she can't read them. It certainly fits

Bree can read Teeg and Gavin, and Cheedas, too.

Hmmmm, could it be she can't read people she already met sometime in her own subjective future?

She is immortal; wan't she probably meet practically everyone in her very long subjective future?

... a reminder (just for fun):
"One of the major problems encountered in the time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. <...> The major problem is simply that of the grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's "Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations". It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in a further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own father or mother. Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up..."

Hmm, let me be more clear.

So she meets Bill at Ashe's house, had she been able to read his whole life she would have seen the following.......

1. Herself working with younger Bill on Earth, in the past, hunting down rogue's.
2. She would see herself with Kay and others, holding open a portal to different times that a young Ashe had opened.

So basically, my theory is she couldn't read him because they are meeting out of order so to speak, subjectively for Bill back on earth is the first time they met, so he was readable, but her first time was in his future, so she couldn't read him then.

So basically the block comes so she can't see in others what happens in her own subjective "future" timeline. In theory... LOL

@David I loved that theory, so much so I gave it the ultimate test. I can now confirm with certainty that the people she can't read has nothing to do with it:( all I can say is. Bugger.