I like flowcharts and diagrams. [ He says it with good humor, but his expression fades into quiet attention as he listens. What had seemed complex earlier with her foreign terminology begins to crystallize in his mind. It reminds him of his Macroverse travels, and the flow of time as described in his cadet training manuals. If you were to misplace your pen, and go back in time to when you knew where it was, and bring it to yourself in the future, you would continue to have no pen, because the pen no longer existed in the past.

It's more than a little complex, with splintering timelines where each action along the timestream creates its own separate mayfly dimension. All those Earths he'd turned into the capital of the new Kree empire, for instance. The Black King she's speaking about--some kind of Celestial, or Astro-God? Perhaps bigger than that, by the reckoning of her own multiverse.

He does have questions, as a matter of fact. ]

Sgrub. Where did it come from, who or what created it? How does the game begin? How are the players chosen?

[ A lot of questions. ]