"No, I bet you wouldn't recognize the you of five years ago. Of ten. Everything changes us, we're just there for the changes so we don't really see them," Clarice pointed out. That was possibly the broken bones talking though. "You don't like who and what I am, what I was born and what my life made of me. I don't want you to look in the mirror and have that same feeling."

"No option, Clarice," the Timebroker pointed out. "He's made his choice and no amount of wishing him a better life will make it so. I'm sorry dear."