"I suspect it's more than just time that's against us here," he says, peering around Cutter's shoulder as he flips open the book. "There are truths fundamentally different between this world and those of the people pulled into it. What's to say this is how our individual futures look at all? It's possible I've heard of titles you haven't, and vice versa, not because it's something we never had a chance to encounter at home, but because it didn't exist there."

If it's true, Henry has to wonder just how many of these alternate realities aren't plagued by his kind. Most, he hopes.