Page 35 of Bloody Moonlight 4
"I know!"he snapped."Jesus!Twenty five, twenty six times we've been through this already, and you can't keep up in any of them.Paradoxes happen when magical spells fail in one reality.Serious curse—divinity—demonic stuff.You screw with time and it resonates with the old timeline, where it happened before.The corpse of the thing creates a Paradox, through which the power of the old timeline passes through like a trickle.It's just enough to go back and cover our asses."
"You said you've done this before," I said.
"Yes," Vic said."So I know from experience what will and won't work about the process.So trust me.Turn the rest of your brain off.Our only hope is to go through and fix everything."
"So we're going to go stop ourselves?"
"Jesus Christ, no," Vic said."We'd be stuck in the loop forever.Then there'd be no way to go back.No.We can't stop any of this from happening at all.It's just going to create even more Paradoxes which will cause more weird shit to happen."
"Then what are we doing?"I asked.
"We're going to go be our own backup," Vic said."If we go back to the beginning of today—we can sneak around and make sure each of us survives.And then we find and corner Corcoran.And deal with him.For good this time."
"Saving people's lives doesn't create Paradoxes?"
"You ever get Déjà vu?"he asked."Those are mini paradoxes you go through every day.That'll sort itself out.We just have to go back, not be seen, and then finish the job the rest of us haven't done."
"So where is Corcoran?"I asked.
"You're gonna laugh so hard when you realize," he said."Okay.Grab my hand with your right hand, and pull the spike with your left.Ready?On three…"
One…
Two…
I grabbed the spike with my left hand and felt my soul split in two.
