“This is Greek,” Barney says. “You've just stolen a Greek myth.” “I know, I know, but wait. He cuts all their souls in half as a punishment and scatters them across time. So one soul – the woman part – is born in, I don't know, Beijing in the 1700s, and the male half is born on a space station around Jupiter in the 2500s. It's tragic isn't it?” “You've had an entire year,” Barney says quietly. “Wait. So, let's say a few billion souls are cut up and scattered throughout history. There's a very, very slim chance they'd ever meet. But every now and then, one half of the soul knows that its match
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