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@amber lynne: ....we need Class-A amnestics. STAT.

@nephila: You see. NOTHING.

Lucius was silent for a moment, looking at the notes.

"Eh." he shrugged.

"The compounds within Jordan will assimilate into her and do their work, before dissipating soon enough." he continued.

"But this information is... well, it'll be discovered decently soon." he went on.

"So to answer your question... about half a century." he answered her factually.

"Give or take." he said.

"This information will be discovered in about 60 years or so... but... too little, too late." he lamented, pain in his tone.

He was silent for another moment, before sighing quietly.

"My name is Lucius." he told her.

"And... I'm... well, I'm someone that desperately needed to come here and help stop a massive tragedy from occurring." he said further.

"The fact that we stopped the formation of that nexus, means we saved the future." he continued.

"The world." he went on.

"...and yes, I AM a time traveler." he finished, shaking his head slightly.

"Very well." Hal responded, before she heard a snap.

The stranger then saw Jordan and Ilias disappear from his grasp, before chuckling lightly.

"May want to use him for yourself." he told Kiah.

"Odds are your energy boost isn't going to last much longer, and you're going to CRASH." he said further.

"If you want, I can give Agent Sharp the info I'm sure he requires." he then offered.

"I should see him, anyway."

The male sighed and made his way over to Ilias. He set Jordan down fully, before slinging the gorgon-kin over his shoulder, and picking Jordan up in his arms again. It seemed he was stronger than he looked... but this seemed to be his carry limit.

"Sorry." he apologised.

Meanwhile, Hal just sighed.

"Very well." he responded.

"I assume you mean to the medical wing, but... go right ahead." he told her.

He just sighed.

"The nexus was farther along than I'd anticipated." he muttered.

"Well, there's a bit of blowback... or I suppose a bit of 'payment', when a nexus formation is stopped." he told her. "In the form of the ones who did it's manas being sealed away." he went on.

"Temporarily!" he quickly assured her.

"If I were to wager a guess, our mana will be completely sealed off from active use within an hour, and will stay that way for... a few days to a week." he continued.

"A week at MOST, mind." he quickly stressed.

It was at that point, the two of them felt... weak. Not in the physical way, but they could sense something was amiss... inside them. And the stranger seemed to know what was happening.

"Ah damn, I feared this would happen." he said.

He then sighed, and looked at Kiah, making his way over and offering his arms to hold Jordan up.

"Try and create something." he told her.

"That rune, fire, whatever." he went on.

"I need to see the immediate repercussions of what we did."

"I do." he responded as he approached.

"You don't know me, and I've been ordering you around, and I refuse to give you information about who I am." he went on.

"For all YOU know, I could be trying to warp this into my favour to take over the world or something." he continued.

"But I assure you, I am here to stop her from dying, and to stop the creation of that nexus." he promised, as he got close enough.

With that, he was close enough, and added some of his own mana to what she needed. And as he did, she saw an eerie familiarity to it. A rare one, at that. One that raised even MORE questions.

The newcomer accepted the vial and held it securely, making sure he wouldn't drop it.

"Questions later. Work now." he told her.

"We have precious little time left, and I will answer... well..." he stammered, before thinking about it.

"I'll answer what I can." he said.

"Anyway, this last step is the most important, and if it's done right, her life will be spared." he finished, looking at Jordan.

He looked at the shaking vial, and cursed internally.

"Crap, crap, crap." he repeated.

'What to do, what to do!?' he thought.

"There anything here that can help?" he asked.

"No." Kiah responded. "I just wish I wasn't so dead on my feet." she then said.

The newcomer froze for a moment, before sighing, smirking, and snapping his fingers.

That's when Kiah felt a jolt of energy course through her. It wasn't going to be for long, but she felt like she could easily do this now.

The vial she almost dropped would have invalidated their 20 minutes of work, so the newcomer was panicked when she nearly dropped it, and sighed heavily in relief when she caught it.

He then watched her lean onto the table, weight on her hands.

"What?" he asked her.

"What's wrong?" he asked further.

'Damn it, we're so close!' he then thought, wondering how to keep this going.

The newcomer nodded, and then looked around.

"Right." he said.

"At this point, you're the only one that can do this." he told her.

"We don't have the time to call someone else in."

"Someone that's here to help." he told her.

"He'll be fine." he then said, referring to Ilias.

"Now, what I did to her won't last very long, time is of the very essence here." he warned Kiah.

"So we need to get to work and make this compound." he continued.

"I've written the recipe for it, as well as the formulae necessary." he finished.

The one on the other side was silent for a moment.

"Yes." he replied.

"Are YOU all right?" he asked her.

"I... yeah. Yeah, I think so." Kiah responded.

"Good." he responded. "Now GO." he told her.

"Find out what the ever loving HELL that was!" he ordered. "And find out what's happening!" he demanded. "It felt like the process sped up, and now there's nothing!" he continued. "So go and find out what happened down there!"