"...I dunno," Jessica said, head dipping entirely into the blanket as she tried to look down on her own tiny self, before popping back out. "Because I never was little, right? 'm just glad I didn't... disappear."

However whatever this was worked, it hadn't done it simply by winding the clock back. Because then there wouldn't have been a her. The thought of that looming emptiness on a side of her timeline she'd never really considered was alarming, in a way she couldn't quite put her finger on. She pulled the blanket tighter nonetheless.