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112%u201cThank you, Luke,%u201d Max replied.%u201cI%u2019m wondering if the self-destruction of my time travelling vehicle might have caused what you have described. Have you attempted returning to your time-start point yet?%u201dMax shook his head. %u201cNo. I suspect it will work, but it means this Time Well is a barrier to Time exploration, or indeed%u2014learning more about reality.%u201dLuke nodded but said, %u201cYou should return immediately. It is extremely dangerous for you being here. People will come to collect me or kill me. I am staying here. They%u2019ll wish to kill me and anyone I interacted with.%u201dMax stared at him. %u201cWe have similar rules.%u201d He reached down behind himself, %u201cI carry an illegal weapon. When I finish the food you brought me, I will leave. Here. Take this. Something about us is connected. I think it%u2019s important. Maybe if you don%u2019t survive here, I might not ever be.%u201dHe handed the weapon to Luke, who took it and witnessed that it immediately lit up a small illuminating device in its side.%u201cAh. It thinks you%u2019re me. It appears our genetic make up is the same of one in several billion possibilities that to be so alike as to be indistinguishable is insane.%u201dLuke looked at the weapon. %u201cThank you. I understand. Well, I mean I understand the unknown and that is enough.%u201d%u201cWhy are you staying?%u201d Max asked.%u201cA woman,%u201d Luke said. %u201cAnd a potential lifestyle I have never known.%u201dMax finished his sandwich and said. %u201cI have a wife and two children waiting for me.%u201d%u201cMy wife and two children died. It all but destroyed me.%u201d Luke told The Time Traveller