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Everything to Save Her
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Elias refuses to accept it. He drags Mara back to find the machine in this future and fix the timeline. They locate it in a ruined lab, still humming, kept alive by a government that has been hunting him across three years. He has one chance to send her back to a life where she lives and the world stays whole.
The machine needs a power source to send her back, and the only one left is a living mind. Elias understands what he has to do. He sits in the chair and routes everything through his own body. 'Tell our kids I made it quick,' he jokes weakly, though they never got the chance to have any. He pulls the switch. Mara goes home. He becomes the spark that sends her.
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