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*Meg comes into the bar.

Her name is not Katrina.*

The effect --

How did they fix the effect of, you know, Jake still being alive?

*Meg's brow furrows, as she tries to remember.*

They - I think, the reason it was changing history was because Roland met Jake in his world, where Jake went after he died -

so when Jake went back to Roland's world, it was like the cosmic balance was fixed. Or something. I don't get it exactly.

*Andrew starts to respond almost angrily, and then stops for a moment, his mouth hanging slightly open.*

...Huh.

*His face has suddenly gone very ... speculative.*

*Meg eyes him.*

- what?

I was gonna say, Nick killed Sylvaine, Nick knows he killed her, it changes the whole course of his life after that, and that's not an effect you can just handwave away ...

But you know, what if he thought he'd killed her?

*Meg looks at him intently.*

- got any ideas as to how that could be managed? Making him think he killed someone he didn't?

*He shakes his head.* I mean, it's been done, but I can't think of a way that'd fool a vampire -- a robot hasn't got any blood, a shapeshifter he'd be able to smell the difference --

But. Something. Might be a way.

Wait around with someone who's good at bringing people back from the dead? *Meg offers, with a wry grin.*

*Andrew glances away, at that.*

I ... don't know.

Bringing people back from the dead ... kind of tends to go badly, from what I've seen.

Wasn't serious about that last bit, *Meg says, quietly, and puts a hand over his.*

I'm Death's niece, after all. I've got respect for her.

*He nods.*

Anyway. It might. Maybe --

If we could find out exactly what Nick did that night, what he saw, the details of his movements -- if we could work around that without disturbing it, so we didn't change what he thought he saw -- it'd be like Back To The Future part II, everything we saw happen before happening again, only with stuff going on in the background we didn't notice the first time --

You're making references I don't get again, *Meg says, with a bit of a smile.*

But. That makes sense.

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