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"In the dorm would probably be best." Hal responded.

With that, she let him in, shutting the door behind him, and he handed her the paper.

"This is what we got." he told her.

"Our security guard on duty said that someone showed up, gave her this, and then panicked and ran when it seemed like you emerged from your dorm, and your presence was felt." he explained.

"Very strange."

"That makes sense." Hal responded.

"Thank you, Izea." he told her.

The two of them then parted ways, with Hal making his way deeper into the Unit. eventually reaching the dorm that Terra had temporarily laid claim to. He paused at the door, sighed, and knocked lightly.

"Ah... Miss Terra?" he called in, still a bit unsure as to how to properly address her.

"There's been a breakthrough. We have very important information."

Hal raised an eyebrow when she responded in the way she did.

"....I see." he replied.

"That's... well, Terra's presence IS impressive and intimidating, I admit, but... to cause them flee in such a way?" he went on. "Very strange..." he mumbled further, before looking at the paper.

As he did so, his eyes widened noticeably.

"...this... this is everything we need." he commented.

"I need to inform Terra of this!"

"...." Hal was silent as he read the message.

I'll be down there immediately to get it. he sent back.

And he wasn't lying, either. No sooner has she received the message, did he appear in the designated teleporting area, and approached her.

"Izea." he greeted her.

"How did you come into such information?" he asked.

When she looked over the paper... she saw detailed information on an individual.

Their gender, relative age, experiment identifier, last known name, abilities... everything. It was like a lab report, detailing a specimen. To see it reference a person was... unnerving.

Especially the 'experiment identifier' part.

However, she saw that this "Hazel" was out of control, and it was HER that was causing this massive world-wide catastrophic event.

It even gave info on her faults and weaknesses.

The male just shook his head violently.

"This!" he yelled, taking a paper out from an inside pocket of the cloak he was wearing. He threw it onto the ground, and looked around some more.

"That has all the info you need!" he continued.

"Just... please! Stop and save Hazel!" he finished.

He then turned and bolted outside, seemingly running for his life. And she saw it. Literally.

He literally looked like his very life was in danger.

Before he could answer, they both felt a massive presence. It was sudden, but it was there, and it was almost oppressive. The girl had experienced it before recently, but the man there was experiencing it for the first time.

And he practically jumped back in fear.

"AH!" he exclaimed, his hood falling down, revealing that he looked sort of like a dark elf... but at the same time, he looked unlike any other dark elf. Almost like a pale imitation of one.

"Wh-what the!?" he stammered.

"No, no, no, I need to get out of here!" he said in a panicked tone.

"...." he was silent as he witnessed her, before sighing.

"Thought it'd be the Ramaarin." he muttered.

"Whatever, no. No towel." he said.

"I don't know who you are, but I'm here with information on who's causing the planet to go insane." he told her.

"And I mean everything about them."

Zeke looked back towards her and nodded.

"All right." he said. "Thank you." he told her.

Hal nodded as well.

"While you try, I'm going to get a party together to investigate this." he said.

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The figure sighed as they kept their long sleeves covering their arms, their gloves over their hands, and a hood over their head and face, as they pressed against the whipping winds and pelting rain. They approached the office-like building that was the Unit, and stepped up to the doors to the security checkpoint. Once there, pushing against the very elements themselves, they managed to get the doors open, and stepped through them, collapsing onto their hands and knees, panting heavily and soaking, dripping wet from the weather.

They didn't even seem to care or not if anyone else was there at the moment.

Hal nodded.

"I do." he said.

"Agent King is a regenerator, so he can take a beating, and... well... he's extremely resistant to the permanent effects of death." he explained with a wry chuckle.

"And Agent Callamachi is a literal, resurrected zombie." he went on.

"So the two of them can take whatever is dished out at them."

"Clearly." Hal responded.

"Um..." Zeke mumbled. "Excuse me?" he piped up.

"...can you help the fae at Angela's home, too?" he asked Terra as she looked over towards him. "I mean, is that feasible?" he clarified.

"They're... well, they're like family to Angela and Olivia, and I know a few are already too far gone, but... is there any way to stop any more from being lost?" he asked her further.

"...Ezekiel..." Hal mumbled. "The way things are going, I think we're ALL on the same timer as those fae, regardless of her interference or not." he told him bluntly, looking at Terra.

"...oh. I see." Zeke responded, the statement weighing on him like a ton of bricks now.

Hal thought for a moment.

"Not by default." he said.

"However, they have the capability to be enabled as such." he told her.

"There's a control panel for it in the rooms themselves, much like a thermostat, and a master control in my office." he went on. "You can completely isolate yourself from the building, mana-wise, if you desire." he continued.

"Though it's never actually been testing on such high levels of mana." Zeke interrupted.

"...this is true." Hal admitted.

"This will be the true test of how well it works."

Zeke was silent again for a moment, before opening his eyes, looking at Terra, and being taken aback for a second.

"W-woah!" he stammered.

"And... huh?" he asked, before it registered what had happened.

"Oh! Oh." he said.

"Yes... yes, a LOT, actually." he admitted, looking between the girls.

"Amazingly so."

"Nobody really expects me." Nate replied from his hiding place with a chuckle.

"And yes, where ARE Angela and Olivia?" Hal asked him.

Nate promptly told them, and the two of them made their way to the room in question, stepping inside and seeing Zeke sitting between the two, concentrating intensely, and keeping a circle of mana around each of the patients.

Hal couldn't see it, but Terra could; they weren't in good shape.

But Zeke was at least keeping it from getting worse. That was something, anyway.