[ There is a very simple answer to all of this, one that he is aware of, but also terribly painful to acknowledge.

So he doesn't say it. ]

We'll see.

[ Even if Vietnam doesn't seem like the sort to judge him, it still feels like an admission of failure to say it directly. ]

If their version of her comes, then I won't have an issue with whatever they want to do. [ It's the wrong person, anyway. ] But if she comes from my time, then I won't stand interruptions.