[ Lightning's fingers twitch as if drumming on an invisible surface (or against the grip of an invisible weapon), but it's nowhere near as involved as the near-constant movement of this particular young man's hands. Her gaze follows their path, almost distractedly, before lifting to his face, staring like she's trying to bore a hole into his mind. ]
Because you went back in time.
[ It's a statement, not a question. Lightning has no idea what the "rules" are for how the past and future change to fit around the present in their world, but that seems pretty obvious to her even from the scant details she has. If you went back in time, even if you did nothing at all there, it would still be bound to change something- in a way that didn't exist in the timeline you were originally from. Right? So, if that rippled up into the future, changing events all the way...
... This is going to make her head hurt later, when she's trying to sleep. ]
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Because you went back in time.
[ It's a statement, not a question. Lightning has no idea what the "rules" are for how the past and future change to fit around the present in their world, but that seems pretty obvious to her even from the scant details she has. If you went back in time, even if you did nothing at all there, it would still be bound to change something- in a way that didn't exist in the timeline you were originally from. Right? So, if that rippled up into the future, changing events all the way...
... This is going to make her head hurt later, when she's trying to sleep. ]