"I've only know Dirk and Farah for... three months. And Dirk was missing for two of those. But I don't want to imagine not having met them."

Toss shrugs, watching the memory, watching the way Dirk looks at him, full of excitement and happiness and sugar. "If he was meant to. The case I met him on involved a self fulfilling, closed time loop, which wouldn't have resolved if he hadn't been involved. But if he's not meant to, nothing."

Bart killed who she felt like killing and she always felt like killing objectively terrible people. Really terrible. "I know he can do it because I've been with him when he does it. It's frustrating as hell and terrifying but it works out. And so far nothing has really helped much except my medication."

And being in Wendimoor, where thought and reality overlap a bit more than they should.