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"...hm." Zeke muttered.

"Well, I know one thing." he said.

"Lunet shouldn't be here. What with what's going on, and with her father like this." he reasoned.

-Meanwhile-

Cain and Lunet were sitting in a park, watching the clouds roll by, and eating some hotdogs they got from a vendor.

"Nice afternoon." Cain said.

"We still going to the movie later?" he asked.

"The evening show, yeah?" he asked further.

Before any more words could be exchanged between the two of them, Zeke arrived.

"I'm here!" he said.

He then paused as he looked around.

"Whaaaaaat is going on here?" he asked.

"It looks like things are getting really weird around here." he commented. "And considering this place, that is saying something." he said further, continuing to scan the area.

"Can I get a bit of an explanation?"

As soon as she entered the room, mana seemed to just... 'appear', though it was more 'became visible'.

The swirled around slowly, leaking out of Hal, but staying connected to him.

And it seemed like it was reacting to Hazel being there.

Even Angela saw this, as the mana was starting to slowly 'leak' through the door.

It was disconcerting, to say the least.

I'll be right there. she got in response from Zeke.

The intern blinked a couple of times.

"Really?" he asked.

"Well, that's... great news." he said.

He then paused for a moment.

"I can go get him." he offered.

"Odds are he's in his office." he said.

It was clear he was out of the loop as to what had happened with Sharp just recently.

When she entered Angela's office, she found another medic there, one by the name of Lyle.

He had been recently hired, about 6 months or so, and was usually tasked with organisation and such. He was still an intern, after all.

When he saw Hazel there, he smiled a little.

"Oh, hello, Miss Hazel." he greeted her.

"Dr. Edwards isn't in right now." he told her.

"I can try and find her if you like." he offered.

"I'm here just making sure things are in order, and that she doesn't lose anything." he went on.

"...making busywork for myself, essentially, as I fear I am useless with the current pandemic afflicting the Unit." he then lamented.

"Huh?" Zeke muttered.

"Wait, what?" he asked.

"You have!?" he exclaimed.

"Then yes, you need to get there NOW." he told her.

"If I helped, would you get there faster?" he asked.

"Or should I leave you alone?" he asked further.

"ANYTHING to speed this up and find a solution."

Zeke looked at her, and nodded.

"Yeah." he said.

"That's right." he told her.

"They start being forgetful, then it gets worse, then they start forgetting big things... eventually they just... shut down." he lamented.

"Anya's a case of that." he went on.

"Why?" he asked.

"....." Zeke was silent for a moment, before sighing heavily.

"Hey, Hazel." he greeted her.

"Yeah, go ahead and sit." he told her.

When she did, he sighed once again.

"And you're right." he told her.

"This is insanity, and it's just going to get worse and worse."

Zeke was silent again for a moment.

"I might as well, tell Hollie." he said.

"You have a better relationship with Lunet." he told her.

"...by that, I mean you're more than just friendly acquaintances that say 'hi' to each other occasionally." he clarified.

"I'm not sure where Lunet IS, though." he admitted.

"But, yes, I'll take on the job of telling Hollie." he repeated.

"If nothing else, I can better take any brunt of... whatever anger might happen when she hears about Sharp." he then muttered.

And he did. She hadn't taken it the best, but she was more understanding that he could have hoped for. She warned that the Unit would be placed under quarantine if a solution wasn't found in the next 24 hours, and that weighed heavily on him.

Later, he was sitting in the cafeteria, which was pretty desolate and silent, staring at his reflection in a glass of water, before sighing and shaking his head.

"...DAMN IT ALL!" he suddenly screamed out in frustration.

"....I... what?" Zeke said.

"Hold on, what!?" he exclaimed.

"What the hell was that blast of mana earlier, and what did it do to you!?" he asked her.

"Whatever." he said.

He then repeated what the fae had told him, and the explanation of what had happened, everything he'd said before. It was a bit more truncated, but it got all the info out at her.

"So, yes, again, Liv." he said.

"We need to work fast and find a cure for this!"

"Frantic?" Zeke asked.

"You know why!" he said.

"That weird virus is getting worse! I just told you!" he exclaimed.

"I explained to the staff here, and they're trying to find a way to cure it." he went on.

"Remember? When I said that Liv-" he started to say further, before pausing.

"...wait, you look a hell of a lot better than you did about 3 minutes ago or so..." he then commented.

"What happened? What'd you do?" he asked her.

What she found was... unnerving.

His vitals were stable, but he was unresponsive.

Completely.

If anything, he was just like how Anya was when he brought her in.

Nothing she was doing was getting any kind of response from him.

But it seems his vitals were working...

...for whatever that was worth.

"All right." Hal replied.

He then snapped his fingers.

However, as he did so, mana started to swirl around them... but it then stopped. It started to flow in reverse, before circling around Angela in specific.

"What the!?" Hal exclaimed.

"No, that's not-!" he started to say, before some of the mana started to batter him, rendering him unconscious.

Which was when the mana surrounding Angela started to speed up... more and more... until she couldn't see anything around her, before there was a brilliant flash of white light.

This also caused a bit of a shockwave, sending her crashing into the wall behind her.

Hal just shrugged.

"I guess." he said.

"Never tried it, admittedly." he told her.

"Can't do it of my own will, obviously." he went on.

"Surprisingly, nobody's wished for it." he said.

"If you want to try, try." he told her.