[h2]Dr. Facilier[/h2]

Ah, good. They were bringing the master out; everything seems to be running smoothly. "Thank you very much, ma'am," Facilier said, doing a wild spin and then a bow to Shirley. "It'd be nice to see her, though, before any more of the shady characters show up to this castle."

You hypocrite.

[h2]Lucina--Academy City[/h2]

"Excuse me. I'm sorry. Pardon me."

Lucina pushed her way through a crowd of younger people as she wandered the streets. What sort of temporal anomaly deposited her in this city? It wasn't anywhere she recognized; the architecture and technology seemed very advanced, way ahead of Lucina's time.

Lucina felt out-of-place, mostly due to the primarily student population of the large principality, plus the fact that her navy-blue lord's attire seemed anomalous in a crowd of school uniforms.

Lucina looked up towards the buildings. What a far cry from the apocalyptic, dragon-razed time from which she came, and the war-torn continent from which she was torn. Yet despite the environment, Lucina could not feel at peace, when she knew that her closest friends depended on her to deliver them from Grima's evil.

Lucina made her way towards the sidewalk. "Hello?" she called. "Can somebody tell me where I am? I appear to be lost. What country is this?"

[h2]Rasputin--Hangar, Shadow Eternity HQ[/h2]

Rasputin rubbed his hands in glee as the agents of Shadow Eternity prepared to take the Serpent's Eye. "If I cannot kill the last of the Romanovs directly," he growled to himself, "then I shall end them with a BANG in the dark of the night!"

He clutched his reliquary with a gnarled hand. "Yes, yes, your time shall soon come," Rasputin said to the demons within the vial.