[He makes a sympathetic face; even if he's the one who brought it up, he feels bad about being the one to break the news to her. It would be today, wouldn't it.]
I don't mean to alarm you so soon after you arrived, and I know this is going to sound difficult to believe, but... in the early morning of March 20, AD 2018, a missile was detected heading towards Heropa. Somehow [he knows from experience that getting into Lachesis now makes this more complicated, and that Lachesis herself isn't as well known as he was led to believe, so he skips over that detail for now] time reversed before it hit, so we had a chance to stop it. We managed to destroy it before it entered the Earth Sphe-- sorry, before it entered Earth's orbit, but only after the day repeated itself several times.
[He knows how it sounds hearing it summed up like that, so he pauses and says again, apologetically] I know that's a lot to hear. I can do my best to explain it more.
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I don't mean to alarm you so soon after you arrived, and I know this is going to sound difficult to believe, but... in the early morning of March 20, AD 2018, a missile was detected heading towards Heropa. Somehow [he knows from experience that getting into Lachesis now makes this more complicated, and that Lachesis herself isn't as well known as he was led to believe, so he skips over that detail for now] time reversed before it hit, so we had a chance to stop it. We managed to destroy it before it entered the Earth Sphe-- sorry, before it entered Earth's orbit, but only after the day repeated itself several times.
[He knows how it sounds hearing it summed up like that, so he pauses and says again, apologetically] I know that's a lot to hear. I can do my best to explain it more.