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Two Minutes Out of Step
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Mara decided the lag was too dangerous to risk a reverse alone. She called their dad, a retired engineer, and put him on speaker. He listened to both timelines and said calmly, 'Don't reverse blind. Let me drive over and run the sync from outside the field.' They agreed to wait for him.
Dad arrived and stood outside the coil's glowing ring, where time ran normal. He read Mara's notes and called the count for both sisters from the outside, like a conductor. On his mark they each pressed reverse. The fold smoothed, the gap closed, and the three of them stood in the same minute, finally.
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