[Spooktober!]

"Nonsense!"
Fortuna laughs. "Time travel doesn't work that way. And I'm about eighty three percent certain that him being here doesn't even have anything to do with time travel."

Probably more like cloning.

Or maybe he was grabbed from an alternate universe?

Something like that.

"And I have no idea! The random chaos magic event didn't have a duration, so it might be for five minutes or five forevers," she rambles. Then? She grins a silly grin at the child and produces her hitherto unseen bag full of gourmet, artisan candies. "Hello there! This is an adventure! Would you like some candy?"

She offers the bag to the child.

The contents smell wonderful and aren't even kind of radioactive! And does Kid Nick know what a PIPboy looks like? Because Fortuna is totally wearing one.