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I wonder what's keeping the Time Patrol from going to the shard timelines and spiriting the displaced out of them?
Theoretically, they could use the Pendulum Room to follow through the shards to locate them. But, maybe that's too many tabs for the Pendulum Room's CPU to handle.
Or maybe the Time Patrol does know where they are, but aggravating the shards by traveling to and fro and changing them would just break time more, so they're on a temporary quarantine, that is, a temporal quarantine from patrollers, multi-versers, and epoch gamers.
So in the end, we would have to have faith that the displaced would get Back to the Present, but when and where that present is is anyone's guess.