"Karyn wished that I'd know what's going on. Well, I now know what's going on ... but not just how to fit in this timeline as Jon. I also know why Jane acted like that. It was because she was being affected by a temporal anomaly, caused by my arrival."
"I don't get it. How could a temporal anomaly change her attitude?"
"Don't ask me. I barely know anything about temporal mechanics, except for what I've seen in sci-fi movies," Jon said. "Karyn, do you realize that you just created a person out of thin air and killed him without a second thought. You're even worse than Jane over there. Did you know that death by avalanche is considered one of the most torturous ways to die?"
"But I didn't kill anyone," Karyn said. "All I did was wish up a dead body (an inanimate object) that people think was a person who died in an avalanche. It's not the same thing."
"Oh. I hadn't thought of it that way. But still, couldn't you have thought up some other way to bring me ... back ..."
"Jon, what is it?"
He was looking down at himself, then he touched his neck. "I don't have a pulse. And I'm not breathing!"
"What do you mean?" Karyn asked. Even though she didn't know Jon (since he was from an alternate timeline), she was still concerned for him.
"I mean that I'm still dead! I'm a zombie."
"Jon, if you were a zombie, then you'd be a mindless flesh-eating monster."
"You're right. But if I'm not a zombie, what am I?"
"There might not be a name for it," Karyn said. "Maybe we should use the stone to fix you. But what should we wish for?"
