Gary Brandt delivers his most time-bending and emotionally complex chapter yet in this episode from The Dimension Of Mind Dot Com when a mundane Monday morning transforms into a collision between past lives, cosmic love stories, and impossible reincarnation mechanics that challenge everything the girls thought they knew about time itself.
The brilliant shock emerges when Helena literally tumbles to her knees on the schoolyard concrete after receiving a telepathic marriage proposal from Bobby—a pudgy, acne-scarred new boy who claims to be the reincarnated soul of Bobby Miller, the gorgeous love interest who died protecting them years ago.
What starts as teenage outrage at his unconventional appearance becomes a mind-bending revelation when this Bobby explains he's been granted permission by time lord Joshua to reincarnate backward in time, living over a thousand years in Level 5 (the domain where Helena was originally born) before being born into this timeline specifically to find her again.
Brandt masterfully captures the girls' protective fury when they confront this apparent imposter, with Eileen's shallow focus on his looks creating tension that reveals her own biases while Ella demands explanations and Roxanna threatens physical violence.
But the real genius unfolds through Bobby's devastating exposition about Earth's future destruction around 2120, the Great Awakening in 5170, and the cosmic love story of Sally and Patrick—two kids with AI brain implants whose computer's attempt to connect with all cellular life catastrophically killed every living thing on Earth, creating a 'Great Influx' of billions of souls into Level 5 before they eventually figured out how to restart life on a dead planet.
The chapter's emotional core emerges through Helena's complex response to this cosmic courtship: she feels the genuine spiritual resonance of her old love while refusing to be swept away by destiny, insisting her heart 'isn't for sale' and demanding to choose her own path rather than accept some arranged marriage from beyond.
Brandt brilliantly balances metaphysical complexity with teenage authenticity when Helena agrees to friendship while Bobby accepts the friend zone with surprising maturity, acknowledging that true love can't be forced even across multiple lifetimes.
Ella's diary entry perfectly captures the chapter's central tension: her worry about Eileen's appearance-focused prejudices, her protective concern for Helena's vulnerable emotional state, and her growing suspicion that Joshua's temporal interventions might be creating dangerous timeline complications—a haunting meditation on how even divine love stories must respect free will and the messy reality that the heart can't be commanded, even by time lords.