[He can't help a little grin at that -- he should have expected an answer along those lines. The kid was literally born from a paradox; of course it wouldn't be the only one to shape his life. The rest is more interesting, smacks of predestination.]

That's starting to sound like it was about par for the course.

[The tremors aren't subsiding. He studiously ignores them.]

Less than that. I rewound something that shouldn't have happened; imposed an unstable time loop for a while. Nothing very complicated.