“That’s a long time to be out solving someone else’s problems,” Gen remarked, though he wondered privately if it was a better format. Did they always leave the worlds better off after helping them? What about clean up?

But the wince he let show up on his face. “Time’s fuzzy here too. If you’re curious I think the library has everything we learned about it ... err. We, I mean people smarter than me. There was a point we could ask the train questions - yes, that’s as crazy as it sounds - and that’s when we discovered time doesn’t run normally here.”