"I know." Ray knew being shrunk and being dead were two very different things. The blow to his ego, he remembers, when nobody cared about his death. When the city went on without him. All of this talk of actual death and this facing it tugged at his empathy.

"We screwed up this year. All of this may just be part of that screw up. The thing is, at one point in our mission, we saw a seperate time displaced set of Legends. Not of all of us were there. I wasn't. I didn't know what happened to him, to me, but I knew that I was, well, only had one life left in the game of life." Videogame metaphors work.