When Manse Everard warns Otto Koch of a temporal alteration later in 1137, he reassures him:
"'None of you will disappear at the critical moment.'" (p. 313)
Why would they have disappeared? In the unaltered timeline, Koch continues to live in the history leading to the Danellians. In the altered timeline, he continues to live into what has become an unknown future.
Does anyone ever disappear? Yes, I think that sometimes somebody does. A time criminal who deliberately alters the course of events disappears from the Danellian timeline and continues to exist in the altered timeline. Thus, there could be a story in which someone is seen to disappear. But it would destroy the whole point of the Patrol if they realized that they and their timeline continued to exist despite the activity of a time criminal.
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Kaor, Paul!
And of course sometimes Time Patrol agents "disappear" because they were somehow killed while on a mission. I remember some mention of the losses suffered by the Patrol for such reasons.
Ad astra! Sean
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