Michael Tenicek is haunted by dreams and memories of a woman he loved and knows everything about but never met and cannot identify, other than that her name was Miranda. Driven to the brink of suicide, he is visited by the Hanged Man, a magical being who explains that a
cataclysmic battle had destroyed the timeline, and that his wife Miranda was accidentally omitted from the new version of the universe: "the chronal reconstruction was not exact. Air Ace first battled the Barnstormers on a Sunday, not a Monday... and as a result, her grandparents never met". Since their bond was particularly strong, however, Michael still remembers her, but his grief would apparently cause the bond to open up the world to extradimensional threats, so the Hanged Man is dealing with the problem by relieving Michael of his grief, which has been done through his now receiving closure. The Hanged Man also offers to take Michael's memories of Miranda, but consoled by knowing he is not insane, and subsequently that there are others who have the same kind of problem as him, Michael chooses to retain them, which the Hanged Man also reveals is what the others who have this problem always choose. ==Reception==