[Malik isn't sure if it's really him or not, time is apparently flexible here and while Rashid is five years dead and burned to ash that doesn't mean he wasn't also grabbed here before that.]

Even the best laid plans can be torn asunder by a single man in the right place an willing to do what is necessary at the time.

[To Ales he just gives a tiny shake of his head and tightening of his expression, not here and not now.]