Wizard rythym

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa glances at Emily, "Which lady's whim? Queen Morwel?"

[Anastasia]

"No! The Queen of Fairies!" Is the hiss, long and low. "Her Majesty, Titania!"

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods slowly, "Are... you implying that Titania has ordered you to come here and interfere with Time?"

[Anastasia]

"No, no. Her will, not her orders," The creature says quickly, "Divine ones, she sees time back and forth, forward and back, don't you see?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Ahh... ha... And how exactly were you executing her will? What were you trying to accomplish here?"

[Anastasia]

The creature flickers. Like an illusion in the sunshine, distorted by heat. "I..." Another flicker, "I don't remember."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa focus her senses to see if this Fey is flickering through time, "Okay, so, until we talk to Titania and figure out exactly what she wanted that you can't remember how about you don't continue and instead tell us what you were doing?"

[Anastasia]

A new spell comes - different, but alive and beautiful. A spell you've never seen before, but feels right.

"I...had to...stalk? Find? Fight?" It answers slowly, "The more I stop to think, the less I know!"

It is indeed out of time and out of phase. Everything about it is wrong.

"Suppose we'll have to fix it," Bastian says leisurely, "Metal man, you know how?"

"It happens that I can advise on you this, but ultimately you'd be best to solve the problem here and then treat...pardon the question, but are you a man or a woman?" he asks, rather delicately.

"I..." A long pause, the strange creature unresponsive.

"You don't know," Chrona 42 surmises. "Unfortunate and confusing, but you that can be settled later. Fortunately if you've survived this long, you'll survive longer yet. You see, this is a case of Temporal Misadjustment. A disease of sorts, but it's closer to a curse. Repeated, uncontrolled and rapid time travel can cause confusion and loss of memories. This is mostly a mortal affliction, but even spirits can be affected with sufficient exposure. Not everyone is vulnerable to it, but it seems our friend is. Relatively rare even when chronomancy was common, it's thought to be the result of a particular weakness or quirk of the person afflicted. As in the same way that some people have brown hair or blue eyes, it's merely a quirk of bloodlines."

"In that case, we'll see to your recovery," Emily agrees, "And if you've committed crimes beyond the pale, your Queen can judge you."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Will stabilizing the anomaly stabilize him?"

[Anastasia]

"It'll be the first step," Chrona 42 explains, "Otherwise it's like trying to dry the deck of a ship while waves crash over and onto the deck."

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa nods, "And the spell to stabilize it?"

[Anastasia]

"I'll teach you how to use it once we get that far," Chrona 42 says easily, a little smile on his face.

"Fearless, aren't you?" Emily observes, "You're polite but you don't fall to pieces around a deity." She approaches him, "Then again, you helped Mom and Alicia with this."

"It may soothe you that one reason I have this duty is that I am good at dealing with powers and the divine." Chrona explains, "We all have our gifts and perhaps that is mine from Primus."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Well, it helps that we're all amicable. Let's see this in action."

[Anastasia]

See what in action? You lost me.

[Iron Dragoon]

The spell to fix this.