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How exactly does the time travelling work in this book?
More specifically, if all the children leave Miss Peregrine's Home on the morning of September 4th, 1940, why haven't they run into Abraham Portman yet and why didn't everyone know that the kids had left in the modern times when Jacob first came to the island?
I think because Abraham was no longer inside the loop to leave the loop, they don't see him outside it when they leave at the end of the book. I mean, within the constraints of the time loop, the kids are still aware of "the next day" and they can do different things everyday unlike the regular people on the island, so they aren't looping,technically, so I figure Abraham doesn't, either. Maybe their some weird Timey-Wimey effect that makes you immune to that sort of thing after you've lived in a loop, aware of the loop. Of course Abraham could be out there, they just don't run into him.
Also, they left in the dead of night, to make sure no one knew.
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