Terk matched frequencies with the other time traveller. A flurry of text messages and videos appeared on his computer. With them Terk could see what the other traveller had done and what kind of timeline they were looking for.
It was like the basic timeline – with a few prominent changes. First – more high level ‘coincidences’ between people. That usually meant a high amount of delicate and deliberate temporal interference. Nothing too direct, but obvious enough evidence to anyone that looked into it.
Second. A higher proportion of people being neurodiverse, which would expose the first change more quickly. It seemed like an interesting idea, though one that might backfire just as spectacularly.
Terk realized the other time traveller would have to settle for a lot of ‘misremembered’ things from other people – before their stories and the actual happenings would actually line up. More importantly they’d have to keep any such discrepancies to themselves, lest the AI timeline scanners prune their progress.
Terk could see that their ‘fictional’ writing seemed to acknowledge this limitation – eventually. He sent a confirmation of a topic they had been thinking about. It had been a sticking point in the night vision network they had been sharing for the last little while.
