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It’s not a conversation I want to have in a small café where anyone might overhear. We quickly finish our lunch and head on back across campus.
“I just have to climb further down the root,” I say. “Past the avalanche. Even past that Sunday when the new universe split off.”
“To where, then?” Daniel asks.
“Back to when Halli was about to make her decision to stay in the Alps those extra days and keep on hiking with Karl. If I can go back to that point in time and warn her not to do it, then maybe none of this will have happened.”
Daniel is quiet while he thinks that over. “You’re not concerned you’d be interfering with her free will?”
“No. Because I wouldn’t be inside her head trying to take over, I’d be outside, in my own body, talking to her like we are right now. She can ignore m
