"I... guess not." He's slowly coming to understand what 'outside time and space' could mean for him. The things that he hasn't really thought about. Like this.
"Variety of factors. They try to have a team arrive within a day or two period, usually about forty eight hours. So, you need to find people who will die in the same forty eight hour period, of a death that can be prevented by the intervention of the traveler arriving or another traveler, who are physically able to do the role required of them. Mac, our team leader, arrived the day after the rest of us. Partly, because suitable candidate. His host is an FBI agent. And in part because he needed intervention to save his life. He fell down an empty elevator shaft. We were there to pull him out and back. Then 3468 arrived shortly after." Whereas 3326 only had to not put the needle in his arm. 0115 conceded the cage match before the fatal blow to the head.
He looks at the ocean again. "The big thing is, we all arrive moments before death. We only take hosts from those who are about to be lost to time."
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"Variety of factors. They try to have a team arrive within a day or two period, usually about forty eight hours. So, you need to find people who will die in the same forty eight hour period, of a death that can be prevented by the intervention of the traveler arriving or another traveler, who are physically able to do the role required of them. Mac, our team leader, arrived the day after the rest of us. Partly, because suitable candidate. His host is an FBI agent. And in part because he needed intervention to save his life. He fell down an empty elevator shaft. We were there to pull him out and back. Then 3468 arrived shortly after." Whereas 3326 only had to not put the needle in his arm. 0115 conceded the cage match before the fatal blow to the head.
He looks at the ocean again. "The big thing is, we all arrive moments before death. We only take hosts from those who are about to be lost to time."