"Centuries. I-I paused time, to enable me to do so. I don't... belong here exactly." But he wonders if the Watcher won't interfere with this one - just this once.

"There was some temporal energy in my universe, so perhaps that will assist in holding, rather than breaking apart. He also thinks of the bubble which he was supposed to have - and where that might have gone, tumbling into the void of space.