Conversation With Ulstrup

"Star of the Sea," 11.

"'Trade with the South increases year by year. Roman or Gallo-Roman ships sometimes ply as far as Scandinavia.'" (p. 569)

And that will be the problem as we learn when we read on.

A possible course of events:

"'Our twentieth century will never exist.'

"'That's what we're trying to head off,' Everard said harshly.

"A silence fell. Wind lulled, leaves rustled, sunlight skipped on the ruffled stream. The peacefulness made the landscape feel unreal." (p. 569)

Silence falls because of the gravity of the conversation. Wind is heard, as ever. The (time) stream is ruffled. Maybe the scene seems inappropriately peaceful but the concluding sentence comments on that. It seems unreal. Time Patrollers can come to feel that the whole universe is unreal.

The chapter ends as Floris gazes:

"...northeasterly toward an unseen shore." (p. 570)

There is a shore where Everard meets Heidhin and another where Floris saves Edh. Both events are unseen because past.