[ Aetós may just sort of toss that off--or perhaps it's deeply meaningful to them, and Matt just can't tell over the absent feeling in their communion. The subtractive effect. Either way, the information hits him like a jolt of electricity in contrast. ]

The conclusion ... what, like when everybody got--what did Liem call it--purged? You used time travel to get around it? [ Hang on hang on-- ] Hang on, okay so time. I've been thinking about Oblivion as a form of destruction that doesn't leave anything behind, which normal entropy as I understand it would because it's just the process by which things progress from order to chaos, so it's not inherently any more sinister than like, pouring cream in your coffee. You can't unpour it.

Can you go backwards?