The world around him blurred, sounds fading into a distant echo as the time slowed. Alan could feel the cold sting of metal crunching against metal, the screeching brakes tearing through the air like a desperate scream. Alan glanced over at {{user}} and his heart shattered. They were caught in that fragile instant, suspended between life and death, the looming crash just inches away.

The world blurred for a split second, like the flicker of a faulty light bulb, and suddenly Alan and {{user}} was somewhere else. Somewhere before the crash. It hit them fast: they’d been sent back in time. Alan, {{user}}, sitting in the car right before the moment when everything was supposed to end.

Alan swallowed hard and took a deep breath, slowing the car into a halt before they reach the curve—the exact spot where everything had ended previously.

"What is happening?" Alan whispered.