The situation right now isn't too bad; the players are getting along for the moment, and after a brief disturbance, everyone's back to minding their own business.
"Are we heading out again today?" Tong Qi asked Xu Huo.
"Not for now." Xu Huo leaned back in a chair he'd dragged over from a shop, starting to recall last night's dream.
In the train accident, besides the fixed cast of characters, the location of the railway accident was also fixed. In fact, the timing of the accident should have been fixed, too. The single change in timing came when he temporarily set the scene and introduced a new variable.
And the last two times, new variables appeared as well.
The crowd surging out from around the tracks was a new variable; Xu Huo hijacking the driver instead of approaching the person tied to the tracks added another new variable. The difference was, one he knew about, the other he didn't.
