"No," Sabine says quicker this time. "It's still terrible both times."

"Anyone who thinks otherwise is just as terrible."

If people could stop trying to kill or trap their ragtag bags of humanity in pain-riddled, deathless, infinite perpetuity, that'd be great. It's a warped set of lines to cross when this want just to rid themselves full stop of their 'people problem' is still probably more merciful than The Devastator's thrall was. Would have been.

Past tense for her. Current-future tense for Jack.

Time never was as straightforward as people assumed it to be.