[They don't like the way that sounds, even if, logically, they know it just means that they're likely to return from the very same place and time they disappeared from. It's the only way they can explain the fact that they never knew Rodya, Ishmael, and Vergilius had vanished at all to begin with.
But the way it's phrased...]
I could always ask when I go back. We'd all be on the same page by then.
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But the way it's phrased...]
I could always ask when I go back. We'd all be on the same page by then.