Everyone puts the fight aside and their heads together, and you all come up with a timeline involving a future Apoc who will go into the Furthest Ring for unclear reasons, possibly to give the staff to you. While there, they will interfere with Ajact's timeline just to make sure there's an ultimate cause of their interference, since they've observed it already happened. Also, it may be possible to revive Zevvie somehow?? You don't want to make any promises, and the more questions and conjectures everyone makes, the less certain you feel about what you witnessed, or if you actually witnessed anything at all. Maybe the Furthest Ring was just so Nothing that you created some extremely vivid fantasies while looking at playing cards. Maybe everything that's happening now is an extremely vivid fantasy you're imagining because the Furthest Ring is so nothing. Your arms are around Yuwen, and yet this too-solid flesh feels like it's already melting, resolving into--