She mutters: "Playback," and hears her own voice, muzzy and determined, telling her that Hunter’s table was the one in Cosmatos’s kitchen in the Kyriakos timeline. For that matter, Bekele painted the shark that Kyriakos then bought—another Gnomon connection between narratives. The shark that ate the stock exchange. It occurs to her to wonder whether Bekele, at least, was historically real.