Book 1, Chapter 14 - The Man Who Counts the Endings

Chapter Fourteen — The Man Who Counts the Endings

Far from the Doctor and Ava, another traveller watches dying timelines.

His name is Caldrex.

Where the Doctor sees possibilities, Caldrex sees failures.

Where the Doctor accepts uncertainty, Caldrex counts the worlds that uncertainty allowed to die.

Patient, meticulous and increasingly convinced that history requires correction, he studies the damaged Loom and the extraordinary being who has emerged from the Convergence.

To Caldrex, the Unified Doctor is not the solution.

He is evidence of the problem.

And while the Doctor struggles to repair the threads of reality, Caldrex begins constructing something of his own.

A better future.

One in which chance no longer gets a vote.