Properly return is right -- this is our world, but my past. I hope I don't run into myself and create a paradox or something.

[ He remembers this battle vividly. The exhaustion, the smell of people burning even through his air filters. He can't let it happen all over again. What's a few ships of saved people worth to the timeline, really? ]

Who's in the Circle from your corner of the universe?

[ It's just something to talk about, York's always chatty when nervous. ]