Without thinking, or perhaps just needing the comfort of something familiar, Zoe sank against Sydney when they sat on the couch. When her sister mentioned their father and his courses she tensed slightly. If it was possible their father had become more demanding of her after Sydney had been sent to re-education. But she listened as Sydney explained what the Tesseract had done and she thought for a moment.
"Then...maybe what brought us here isn't magic but science." That let her breathe easier in thinking that something scientific had brought them here. "But...how can time not be linear? Time travel isn't possible otherwise the Alchemists would have found a way or know of it and would keep it secret since messing with time isn't natural."