Romain raises his eyebrows, as if this news were merely a mild surprise. The length of the pause he takes, however, suggests he is using more care to process this news. "Of course, I assume there is no assurance that what overwrites this time would not be worse. On the other hand, if these years are unmade, who would be able to say?"

It's a bit bleak, but then ... everything is somewhat bleak.

"I take it they will need some assistance, in order to return? Otherwise, they would simply do it and we would never know." He wonders, briefly, if his world has been "overwritten" this way in the past. It would be impossible to find out, and he supposed it didn't matter in some ways, but it was unnerving all the same.