That's where the whole complicated time and space thing comes in. Which... [He slumped in defeat.] are quite the parts I'm still trying to make sense of.

B-but... from what I could remember... I can promise you t-t-hat [He curled both his hands, trying to take control of his breath.] neither me or my parents shouldn't be alive.

[They should be dead. He should be dead. And yet, he had experience at least two temporal abnormalities even before properly attending this school]