[With their conversation in audio, the raising of his eyebrows goes unseen, but there is a perk of tone.]

Okay, now you're getting into the whole free will versus predestination thing. You know basically my whole life's hinged around that? Time travel gets you up real close and personal with it, and the sprite thing just gave me extra perspective. And—I'm not comfortable with it. Don't know how to be. I can fake it sometimes, but there's always the fact looming that the future's bound to go a certain way but I can't see the end. It's this whole thing, the Ultimate Riddle, about how much is shaped by your decisions and how much is just going to happen anyway. And it's both. One shapes the other. It doesn't make it any easier to go through. I have to anyway, like I just got done saying, but it's the same as if you sit on a tack for a while. It doesn't stop being a pain in the ass just because you've gotten used to sitting on it. And it's worse when the particular tack getting friendly with your rump involves big, important fate of the world type stuff.

So, the angel thing? I don't know what that's like. Probably can't. But I get some of it. You're not alone with it.