"They might be," he says, glancing upwards as he thinks back to this conversation. He had gotten the impression that they had done this a few times, but knowing that Sxicq might be the one difference feels important. If they're going to figure this out, they need all those pieces.

"She told me about one. The one before this. She said something in the center was wrong, and they were trying to change it when it failed. Here, the fact that Sxicq was alive meant they had to seal it, seal them inside instead of change them." He sounds unsure the entire time he's speaking, wondering if he should go back to the Wizard and ask more about the past. It hadn't seemed important at the time since she'd said their world was so different than the others.