Okay. So when that happens, it's all a part of the same timeline. History is one linear line and you can't change things too differently or you'll risk changing history forever. Your job is to make sure things stay the same.
[Or that's how he understands.] ...where I'm from, some of us have the ability to jump to different timelines. It's an ability called SHIFTing, which means that we can move to other versions of history and take the place of other versions of ourselves. Because of who we are, we have access to all of our old memories and the memories from other timelines we've lived in. But the only way to SHIFT is to be in immediate danger...like dying.
We found out the hard way, but we learned to SHIFT to save ourselves from the timelines where we died. That's what Carlos and I were working on before we came here. Getting to the timeline where all of us were alive.
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[Or that's how he understands.] ...where I'm from, some of us have the ability to jump to different timelines. It's an ability called SHIFTing, which means that we can move to other versions of history and take the place of other versions of ourselves. Because of who we are, we have access to all of our old memories and the memories from other timelines we've lived in. But the only way to SHIFT is to be in immediate danger...like dying.
We found out the hard way, but we learned to SHIFT to save ourselves from the timelines where we died. That's what Carlos and I were working on before we came here. Getting to the timeline where all of us were alive.