The implications made his head spin. He was sitting here, millenniums in the past, watching the very foundations of the future he came from being laid in real-time. The timeline was converging, history crystallizing around him, and he had no idea if his presence here was part of the original pattern or a deviation that would unravel everything.
"That's the current state of things in our world," Casmir continued, pulling Finn from his spiraling thoughts. "The situation is..." he paused, finding Finn's gaze again, "...unprecedented."
The word hung in the air with deliberate intent.
"So they want every Transcendent on the ground to handle this new development. That's why only I was sent to retrieve you." He gestured to himself with a self-deprecating smile. "As the Space bearer, if anything goes wrong, at least I'd have a better chance of bringing everyone back by figuring out some spatial shenanigans."
