"It wasn't...intentional." he sighed softly. "We knew that there had to be a version of us here, a kind of tether I guess. Higgs told me we would join them, and some of us did, but some of us replaced them instead." He hesitated then. He knew the rest of the story did not paint him in a good light. Because he hadn't been. But he wanted to be honest. Wanda had been kind to him here and had meant a lot to him once.
"I was supposed to take his place but not literally. I assumed we'd isolate them and fill in for a while. Just enough to...earn trust. But once I got here it was pretty obvious that never would have worked anyway."