"Mm. Yeah. That crossed my mind." She always knew on some level that it was better for him to know, but... it didn't make the question of how she was ever meant to bring this up any easier to answer.

Could he change anything, even if she had the knowledge to offer? Would going back make it inevitable, a story already set in motion that couldn't be changed? No butterfly wings flapping, just a railroad thundering ahead towards a set destination.

"If I knew more—" she starts and stops, because she doesn't. She sighs. "Most of it was you and Blackwood arguing with Basira. Some things never change."