Umm... well, it was Naga, so it was probably magic? Sorry.

[ Wasn't there a saying about sufficiently advanced technology, anyway? Not that Cynthia would have known it, of course, but it described her-as far as she could tell, this very device was 'magic.' ]

It is their job, but I didn't want little me to miss any time with her family. My parents... I wasn't very old when they died, in my timeline. She shouldn't have to miss a second with them.