Nivalis had wondered about something similar before, though her question had been different from the elf's.
Back when they arrived in that timeline and learned that BS Rita had died during the Battle of BS, Nivalis's first reaction had been:
"Why does this world still exist without you?"
In Nivalis's eyes, any timeline without BS Rita should have faded into No Light. Any story without BS Rita would be unbearably dull. It should have been pruned away the very first time Order Clock cut the timelines.
How had it survived until now?
The question Lightchaser was asking at this moment was the answer to Nivalis's old question.
It was also the answer B80 had once calculated.
Ever since learning there was a world without BS Rita, Lightchaser had been imagining that world's story.
She imagined that possibility.
She imagined that pain.
And so she had foolishly asked whether it became a Brilliance timeline.
