....he based my family on his own. All of them except me, actually. As far as I can tell, I was just...what he needed me to be, in order to finish the story.

Anyway, if we existed first and were influencing him, it wouldn't explain the changes. I have memories now that I know I didn't have a year ago. Memories that don't fit anywhere in the timeline I remember. I think he must have answered a fan question, or -- or prepared something else for publication, maybe, and that affected the way I remember my history. He changed my past, more than once. Sand says it's the result of two timelines naturally converging and happens all the time where he comes from, but I'm not so sure. His dimensions are real. Mine are...artificial.