[It's a heated subject. They're talking about worse than death - about oblivion, erasure. And about fate, and helplessness, and hope. And anyone who doesn't have strong feelings on these questions is to Beckett's mind the strange one. He knows much, much more is hiding behind that flat expression. And he is exactly the kind who force his way through and digs deeper, even when he's digging into living flesh.]

So yours was the session destined to survive. By being different, by breaking the rules, but still by the rule of inevitability. The others were... failed experiments. Fodder. The universe probing out its own limitations for the loopholes.

[He says it all like it's a fact. If he's wrong, Davesprite would surely correct him; if he's right, the next question would have the better punch.]

Does it ever bother you, knowing what your alpha timeline was built on - the corpses of worlds?