[ Maybe it would drive her crazy. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. Maybe then she'd stop making decisions that put everyone else at risk.

Alice sighs, her zeal for figuring out the code to the safe dissolving rapidly. It's like when she was sitting at the table with Kady, examining her reattached fingers, truly considering walking away from it all.

Until he says those two words.

She goes tense, her hands stiff in his, eyes wide as she meets his gaze. ]

Wh— no, that— that's not possible.

[ She watched him die. She sat with his golem as he faded. She and Eliot returned his essence to him. ]

Is— From another timeline? I thought he died in the other thirty-nine. It's not possible.