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Winona needs some company to deal with all the testosterone in the air from
Mithridates Preston and Hamilton Burr, but that’s not the only reason that
Leona wanted to contact Dilara Cassano. The cane that Dalton Hawk was using,
and which he gave to Alyssa before she lost it, was named for her. Leona
isn’t sure if Dilara made it herself, or if someone like Holly Blue or
Weaver made it for her, but it is based off of her power, and utilizes a
gigantic synthetic diamond that Leona procured for her a long time ago in
another timeline. They may require Dilara’s help with Dalton in the coming
days, so it’s time to bring her back into the fold. Until then, there
doesn’t seem to be much for anyone to do. The task force teams are in place,
and awaiting Leona’s orders, but she doesn’t have any orders to give,
because she doesn’t know the specifics of what they’re going to do. Trina
said that the Keys and Keyholders would reveal themselves soon, but they
still haven’t gotten a solid date on this whole Reconvergence thing.
For now, Aldona is the only one with a job to do. If Ramses were around,
Leona would ask him to reverse engineer the inter-reality TV that Mithri let
her take from the Fifth Division. Without him, Aldona is their best bet for
on-the-fly inventions. Leona herself is smart and well educated, but she’s
not an inventor. She understands how to use technology, and she loves to
tinker with stuff that already exists, but she was never all that great at
making something from scratch. In a day, Aldona is done. The Fourth Quadrant
had all of the raw materials that she needed to make enough communication
devices for everyone, and the potential to make more.
Leona is distributing them now, and teaching the teams how to work them.
They look like the Farnsworth communicators from Warehouse 13, which Aldona
may have been subconsciously inspired by. She doesn’t have time to figure
out the network protocols, so each reality has one phone number, which
everyone in that reality shares. If multiple people in one reality answer
their devices when they receive a call, the video and audio will be mashed
together in a confusing and incoherent mess. That’s why she had to include a
sort of ultra-advanced squelching knob that will focus the signal between
only two devices. Perhaps with a little time, she could modify them to
handle full three-way communication, but again, they don’t know how long
they have before the event goes down. Trina and Cheyenne should have reached
out to them sooner.
Leona is in the main sequence now. Mateo nods, grasping the basics, and
obviously not worried about it. “Do you know what day it is?” he asks her.
“Thursday,” she answers, though she knows why he’s bringing it up.
“Yes, but...”
“Mateo, I’m a time traveler. This may technically be 399 years since I was
born, but I’m not 399 years old, and I’ve not experienced any significant
interval of time since then. In fact, I don’t even know how old I am.”
“Doesn’t matter,” he replies with a slow shake of his head. “It’s your
birthday, so we’re celebrating it.”
“You can’t make me.” She threatens him with her reality-jumping dial.
“You would abandon me on this, the day of your birth?”
“Mateo...”
“Come,” he insists. “Let us eat cake.”
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