"I just know what I've seen. It's not my fault English is a limiting language. Interlac has more of the temporal tenses you need to talk about events that once happened but haven't, or stuff like that. You think Schroedinger's cat is a problematic example, it only gets worse the more elements you have interacting in nonspecific states of flux," Bart said, grumbling a little.

"There's barriers between worlds, and preventing time from overlapping in weird ways. Here, not so much. Places, times, even worlds are meeting in ways that aren't typical."