"Well..." he says thoughtful, considering the reach of the rift. "If the rift is tied to New York, that means it's tied to a relative rather than fixed point, following the Earth. If it takes people through time, well, the Earth wouldn't be in the same place at a different time. And honestly, by the time you've managed to reach into a seperate universe, anything's fair game. Rifts can be strangely selective."