...Even if that were so, it won't be the world that I know. Nothing can reverse death. True death. I know that better than anyone.

[ After aeons of toiling in the name of his people, can one begrudge him some measure of selfishness now? The happiness of some other him in another world does nothing for he who exists now, in this present situation. ]

Not that I was in a state to care at the time, but I suspected as much when the Exarch did not vanish upon your changing the fate of the First. He is an anomaly that should not have existed. In his time, we Ascians must have succeeded for him to venture on such a foolish and reckless trip through time.

[ Under his breath, he mutters: ] The hypocrite.