He can only wonder just how many rules a person can break here with time travel alone. Too many complications, and with how Dave mentions all the possibilities of dead Daves showing up if he makes a wrong move? Yeah, honestly, if he were an entity plucking people from different universes, he wouldn't give just one creature that much power either.

He doesnt say anything though, figuring Dave will come to a reasonable conclusion for himself one of these days.

"Permanent."

Back to being terse. He picked up on the too-casual tone, something he's more than familiar with (and implemented often himself) and had a feeling the question would come up sooner than later.