"The enemy faction has captured her," Shae said. "That's why I had to come back in time. If I can't get you two back together again then, as your umpteen greats granddaughter, I'll cease to exist. More importantly from the viewpoint of history, all your other descendants will also cease to exist. And some of them have made very important contributions to the future developing in the way that it did."
Jim decided to humour what he thought must be an insane, and possibly dangerous, Sharon. "Since you do exist, doesn't that mean that it's inevitable that you will be successful in your mission?" he asked, having read many SF stories the utilised this sort of time anomaly. "In any case, surely its success or otherwise is part of the historical record?"
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