"Even AIs have moods," Bart said. "One of the most abrasive personalities I know is a guy who's essentially an organic computer."

And he couldn't help the fond exasperation that crossed his face at that. So he didn't hide it, instead deciding that he had enough for a first round and started looking for a table to camp out at as he laid siege on the food offerings.

"Dimensional bleed isn't that unexpected a side-effect when you've got major turbulence in the timestream," Bart said, brow furrowing a little. "The real problem with alterations of the timeline is the way it tends to cover its tracks. Most people will experience a little short-term confusion, and then the new memories of events cover up the old and they forget it was ever different. I've only met a couple other people who have some level of temporal resistance, and even then, it's not certain. You have no idea how hard it is to keep things straight when you remember living the same period of time more than one way."