Again, something that Marie has said seems to have struck a nerve within Adia. She silently winces, taking another hurried sip of chai. Has she trapped Marie in a viscous cycle with her alteration of the timeline? Has she doomed the other woman to relive her suffering and repeat her mistakes?

No. No, this timeline is better. Adia has to believe that. Not just for people whose lives she's saved, but for Marie, too.

"My people believe that the universe works in cycles. That everything that's happened before will happen again. But it's never the same. One small variable can make a difference. I'm sure you've already made a difference in the lives of the people you've helped."

Like Jeff, she can't help but think. They were happy together once, weren't they? Even if the relationship is truly over, it didn't end in murder. She listens quietly to Marie's response. If she knew about the spying, she'd have a much better understanding of what went wrong, but even with this censored reply, she has a vague sense of what happened.

"That's hard," she says sympathetically. "But that's not something you can fix in another person. He needs to make his own path to self-improvement."