"If you have it in your head that that's how things will go, of course." By shrugs and sighs. "Which - I find it hard, personally, to believe that just because that's how things happened in one particular iteration of history, that's how things will happen in every single iteration of history. If someone told me my future, I'd be politely interested in this story about something that happens to a man very much like me in some other lifetime. But."

Another shrug. "It's your choice. The last thing I'd want to do is cause you distress. So the secrets shall be kept."