"Squall is my boyfriend. And every time I think we have a chance to be together, something gets in the way. It feels like the universe has a personal grudge against us." Time was a really weird construct for the two of them. Rinoa wonders if they are going to spend a lifetime always out of sync with each other, just trying to hold on to what they can. "What you didn't see is that right after that, Squall found me. He threw himself out into space like an idiot to get me. Every roadblock I've come to, he got me out of."

And now she had a Squall-sized shape missing. "So learning to live without him has not been great. As for time ... I'm not sure. Magic, space, and time are things that can be warped by powerful minds, as they've proven, whoever's behind this. The sorceress who possessed me, she would have had the power to completely unwrite a world and start it fresh in her control." There was no telling what the people in charge of their bodies and lives could do. "If people are right that those lists in the bunker prove there have been multiple versions of people before, maybe we are in a loop."