Not a lot. We...mostly just avoided it and hoped it wouldn't happen.

[He grips his mug tighter, knuckles going white.]

Back in my world, I'd been in the middle of going to another one, the one where he's from. I thought that if I could remember, I'd wait it out until the right year and go find him.

But I can't. I'm not going to live more than a few years, there. Someone from the future told me.