I think it is seeing time as the result of the free will, and acknowledging that the decisions that will be made are those that you will make at that point in time, not that some external force predetermined what your choice would be. So time is still linear, but it is linear based on the decisions you will make that you experience simultaneously with decisions made at other times that might not be the same because of free will.

She chose of her own free will with the context of knowing how it would play out. She couldn’t change the future any more than she could change the past, because she was experiencing both at the same time.