March 3
Anomaly. “You mean the Steamer?”
He pauses. “Still not the safe word,” he says, frowning. “But yeah, you call them Steamers. They’re… timers. Indicators that the person they’re attached to is in danger of being erased from time.”
Holy crap. That’s why I thought that thing was evil. It’s something that should not be… because it eliminates things which should not be. Figures. You’d have to send a monster to destroy a monster, right? I can’t fathom why I can see these things, but that doesn’t seem to be important right now.
“Anyway, the big problem with the An– I mean, Steamers,” he continues, “is that only an Interloper can tell how much time the bearer has before the fragline becomes irrevocable. Time, as you know, is funny about paradoxes and stuff like that.”
“All right,” I say. “Assuming I believe all this bullshit about time and paradoxes and the Steamer, what do you expect me to do about it? I didn’t change the past. You had to have.”
“I know,” he says, “but I don’t get how I managed to create the paradox. I wasn’t doing anything that didn’t happen in my past.”
I start to speak, but then catch myself. Of course. He had to have changed his own past somehow. That’d be how he managed to create the Steamer. “What exactly were you doing in the past?”
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