So maybe it hadn't happened at all? Or maybe it had? But how would you bring someone back to life? And God, let it not be the future instead.

Dinah gave the fruit a miserable look, and nodded. "I think I have to talk to Merlin." Chop. "Just in case." Chop. A pause. "But maybe she's dead, then, and..." She frowned at the knife and fruit, and muttered, "It was easy when it was just dreams of my family in danger."