Before the end, and during the end, a message, arriving in a quirk of pub-time for Garret alone. It is a voice. Gegi's, but older, fuller, containing the echoes of laughter and tears. "My brother," she says. "History repeats itself. I suppose it always does. I thought that with the warning of what would come I could change the outcome. But I knew last time as well as this. The cycle continues." "My brother," she says again. "You have given me so much, more than you can ever know. You have given me a future. As you did before. It has taken me so long to see. I don't know what I may have done for you in this time, but everything happens for a reason." "You are a good man, Garret Corven, and I wish you love and luck on your journey. Farewell, my brother."