Salvar had thought he was the only one.
That was the assumption he had been operating under since the beginning, quietly and without ever properly examining it.
He had come back. He knew things. He thought he was the only variable that did not belong in this timeline.
Except he was not alone anymore.
Why?
He asked no one in particular, but that was the question sitting at the center of everything and refusing to move.
Why was there someone else along with him?
And who was it?
The problem was that Salvar had accumulated enemies in his previous life with the consistency and volume of someone who had not been paying attention to the accumulation.
They existed across industries, across cities, across categories of wrongdoing... both his and theirs.
Narrowing the list required information he did not currently have.
Which meant he needed to start somewhere concrete.
