Nerva: "Your ATTACKERS at th' DINER called 'Dinar'? They just looked like SHADOWY FIGURES through the WAITER-FALL..."

X-Prime: "SOME figures in LIGHT, while others next to them SHADOWED while in DIRECT LIGHT..what does THAT sound like?"

..

Nerva: "NIGHT HELMETS?*"

X-Prime: "Yup- and though the Gray Woman keeps ALL her minions in NIGHT HELMETS (or so she TOLD me)-- she likes to have people PUNISH THEMSELVES. That was me, as X and X-Prime, kicking my ass.*"

Nerva: "THAT'S what she meant by 'it's worse than that.'*"

Nerva: "Or, wait- that's what YOU said...THEN."

Nerva: "Wait; since YOU are X and X-PRIME at different TIMES- which time shot which with that POISON BEE-DART* thing?"

X-Prime: "AH...Now you're getting to what I would consider the INTERESTING QUESTIONS."

X-Prime: "Sadly- my Now-self is a continuation of X-PRIME, and X-PRIME, my DOUBLE-stack, shot X with the hand-trebuchet-gun* ...and its DARTS-- bees STUNG NEAR-DEAD by SCORPIONS, then DROWNED in SPIDER VENOM."

Nerva: "Wait- so if X-PRIME is X'S FUTURE--"

X-Prime: "...How can X-PRIME exist, if she died as X- in her own past? Yes, classically PARADOXICAL."

X-Prime: "As I said- I've PARADOXED myself LOOSE; or 'DOCKED, for short."