Streak Sighed.
She knew this would be coming.
"Well, look. As far back as I can remember, I've been able to make things happen. When the circus took me, they helped me refine this ... ability so that I could control it. Now things only happen when I write them down. I can't change just anything, or else they would have made me tear all barriers between realities when they got me.
"What I did to that gunslinger was a thing I've only done once before ... imagine time as a line. Say we're at point C ... and I sent the gunslinger back in time at point B ... and he arrived at point A. He's going to repeat the track from point A to point B again and again, forgetting each time that he's doing it.
"The Circus was a front for Fisher's company, which punched holes between different versions of reality in an effort to cause total chaos. Most people don't know there are other worlds, and often don't notice if they accidentally stumble into a new one ... they're all very similar.
"Of course, there are some worlds that are very much different than others. In one world, for instance, apes are the dominant species. Another world suffered some kind of plague where the world population dropped from 6 billion to about 600 thousand. One world - that Fisher had hoped to open onto all others - has suffered a nuclear holocaust, and the radiation in the air was so potent that it could poison and kill you in hours.
"Fisher used me and other Breakers to punch holes into all worlds to open connections between them. Breakers come in all shapes, all sizes, and from all corners of all worlds. If you've ever heard of a person who went missing and was never found, chaces are good that they were a Breaker."
Streak paused. "Are you guys following all this?"
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