[ Himeka looks up then, a little surprised. So this isn't a recent revelation for him? Has she been taking the timeline consistencies for herself and Estinien for granted? Of course, he did show up a few weeks prior to her...but she hadn't thought too much on it. Just a small blip, like how travel can be different on the First. They were taken from the same point on their star, but the time it took to get them to Abraxas just differed.

This, on the other hand...is quite a bit more drastic. ]

Hold on.

[ She needs a moment to think this through again, replaying how Geralt just described it. This is not a way she has really thought about time before, despite already having some experience with changing it.

"I suspect time and place both run concurrent...Doesn't matter what point in our lives we were. From here, those paths can only continue forward." ]

So...

[ She splits her second half of the egg into two more pieces. ]

You're saying that because of arriving here...were you to return to your sta--erm, sphere, you would forever be unable to return to the same time as your friends and family here?