It is unclear precisely how Henryk came into possession of the trigger engram for transit between the Gruinmarkt and the New England colony of Massachusetts. Presumably it happened some time in the early eighteenth century, early enough for the butterfly to flap its wings again: evidently the wind of its passage gave rise to a hurricane in Scotland and split the time line yet again. In one alternate, the Stuart crown held Scotland in 1745. The English crown—held by descendants of the Elector of Hanover—entered exile in the colonies in 1758, when England lost a war on two fronts against the
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