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Leona sent a message to Alyssa yesterday, but she hasn’t responded. She
could be busy running around with her brainwashed brain, or just chilling on
a beach in Tahiti. What would one of the only two people in the whole world
with time powers do with their day? Does she have an agenda? It sure seems
like she’s reached her goal by now. Rather, she’s reached Dalton Hawk’s
apparent goal. Or maybe this was just the beginning. Maybe temporal energy
was getting in the way of some other objective, and now the real work
starts. If only he would come talk to them, they would know whether they
should try to stop him, or help. He presumably sent them here accidentally,
and then arrived himself in an attempt to remedy the issue. How that ended
up leading him to creating a religion with multiple branches thousands of
years ago is anyone’s guess, but they have met him a few times, and he
didn’t seem evil before. They’re going to give him the benefit of the doubt
until he gives them a solid reason not to.
The team had completely forgotten that the only reason they sent Angela on a
relativistic journey in the first place is because her alternate self, Marie
was terminally ill. As Angela had already taken some of the immortality
waters, they figured it was their only shot to retroactively save her
sister. It appeared to have worked, but time is a fickle thing, and their
success in this pursuit is not necessarily inevitable. They have to actually
find the rest of the waters, and give them to her in the right order. The
hardest to get will be Activator, which can be found anywhere on Earth, but
only at the end of its life. That won’t happen for billions of years. They
should have been focused on this for the last few months. Now it may be too
late. It may be pointless while they’re still under the rule of the Omega
Gyroscope, which is suppressing temporal energy. If the restrictions are
even tighter than before, then none of the waters will do what they’re meant
to do anyway. To get this done, they’re going to need more exceptions, and
barring finding Dalton, there’s only one person they can talk to about that.
Why isn’t she answering?
“Argh!” Leona huffs. “How hard is it to reply to a text? It takes two
seconds to say, get back to you soon. Love ya!”
“Maybe she doesn’t have cell service,” Mateo offers, trying to stay
positive. “It hasn’t really been that long, when you really think about it.”
“Nowhere in the world does not have cell service. The Global Council made it
illegal to manufacture a phone without satellite capabilities for
emergencies. Every satellite data provider agrees to eat the cost of such
calls.”
“If she’s not responding...” He decides not to finish that sentence.
“Yes, Mateo, go on.”
Okay, he’ll say it. “If she doesn’t respond, then we have to find Dalton. We
were probably always going to do that anyway. He is the last piece of the
puzzle that we’ve been trying to put together for the last year. He’s at
least a piece.”
“Great,” Leona says sarcastically. “Where do you suggest we start looking?
Do you want to try to find the Constant again? That always works out so well
for us.”
Mateo sighs, and holds up a pamphlet for Daltomism. “If you wanna climb to
the top, you gotta start at the bottom.”
Leona looks at her husband with a look of repulsion. “It looks like we’re
going to church. Can’t wait, I love those kinds of people. They’re always so
rational.”
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