"Perhaps they are merely waiting until such a time as you could accept her being alive, and understand that it was time travel that allowed it. Knowing that she had survived, and who or what had caused it, might have altered your course of action in such a way that it would not have led to events that may or may not have yet occurred that would cause your foe to attempt the time travel to attempt to kill your mother. As you are now aware of that through external means, it is entirely possible that, if she were being held for that reason, she would be free to be released, now."<br/><br/>Almost as if this were scripted, there comes a nervous knock, at the door to his realm, coinciding with Gammon's 'now'. Gammon does not say anything, or change his unreadable, metallic expression, but there is an almost confident... smugness, in his aura, as if he was aware of all of this, prior to now.