I'd have to agree the lot of this is indeed strange.

[ The terminology is foreign to Yuri, just the same as talk of timelines was. It's all theory, so far as he knows, and some sort of sorcery would make more sense to him. Still, there's no proof of what the cause for their disparate recollections actually is, and Yuri thinks better of questioning "loops". ]

In that case, you're a step ahead of me. I've not met someone who claimed to recall an entirely different set of events unless it was a jest, before all this.

[ Whatever this really is. If others have been here far longer and have no more answers than they do, it must be a difficult puzzle to solve. ]