(09-21-2015, 09:26 AM)Vyce Wrote: The most Marshall can do with the past tense is assault him in the store or try to steal the apple he already bought. Or idk just try to stab him for no reason, as long as it is not while Kage is on the way to the store...because he already went.
What about present tense, then? If Kage "is going" to the store, then he is currently in the process of doing it - success has not been implied yet, it is just what he is attempting to do. As such, it could be interrupted just as much as future tense can be.
And, as Bryn pointed out, there's ways to allow for interruption even in past tense. Rather than say Kage "went" to the store, he could have "turned and began his walk to the store." Again, the success of his arrival at said store remains nebulous and open for being stopped by Marshall.
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