The Time Patrol And The Anthropic Principle

 

The previous post missed the big one. The Danellian asks:

"'Has the universe therefore brought forth sentience, in order to protect and give purpose to its own existence/?'"

-The Shield of Time, p. 435.

That, of course, is the Strong Anthropic Principle. Or at least an Anthropic Question. And he ends not with a question but with advice and a blessing:

"'That is not an answerable question.

"'But take heart. Reality is. You are among those who guard it.'

"A hand lifted. 'Blessing.'

"Everard and Tamberly stood alone."

-ibid.

Can the Danellian time travel without a time machine? Or just render himself invisible?

An appropriate ending, almost, for the series, especially since Everard and Wanda begin a coastal holiday immediately afterward, a holiday interrupted in the concluding short story, "Death and the Knight."