not "are" still there, "were" there.
the conversation has long ended, and everyone at the scene had gone off to do stuff elsewhere for hours on end.
sure, I don't have to react to any of this, but I'm getting paragraphs that are getting more aggressive each and every line, giving 20 reactions to what I have said and done all at once. If those comments had come in in a chronological order, with me there to react to them as they appear, the entire conversation would have gone an entirely different route. Now, I can't just jump in here back into the middle, because time paradoxes, nor does it make much sense that Will just stands there and keeps talking to me like that without me giving an immediate reaction.
it basicaly created two different timelines, two different versions of the scene, scene A, where Will was entirely silent, and scene B, where Will said all that he has said in the paradox post. However, scene B is more or less sliced in half, it's Will giving tons of reactions to things that were going on, while the entire other side, that is things reacting to Will, never even got a chance to happen. It's awkward, if not mostly impossible to somehow create a chimeric version of that scene. If someone asked me to explain what happened in that scene, there is just no actual complete version C, just A, and 1/2 of B.
it's impossible to get any character dynamic going like this, because in A, Will and Hainuwele never spoke a word to eachother, or even acknowledged eachothers presence, heck, I am not sure they even met. Meanwhile in B, Will kept taking offense in Hainuweles existance not being properly explained, and gets more and more agitated at the lack of explanation, to the point where he becomes insulting and appearantly has gained a severe dislike...meanwhile Hainuwele however only exists in timeline A, and never perceived anything of B happening at all.
so yeah, what to make of it? Timeline B seems more like a theorethical "what would have been said, if I had been there", than actual presence, and is very hard to react to, because as a whole, it's a time paradox