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Minerva, give me a
list of good times to interview her teacher and parents. Also, will
removing her from the continuum affect its integrity?”
    “No,” came a female voice
from Alya's shieldwatch. “No significant changes will occur even if
she is removed from this continuum.”
    Terra tried to see what the
small holographic disc said, but she didn't recognize the text.
Instead, Terra tried to regain her composure. What did this strange
woman want? Terra knew Alya had wiped out a platoon of trained
soldiers by herself. If she wanted Terra dead, it would take little
effort on Alya's part. But, Terra knew Alya wasn't evil. An evil
person would have let the hostages die in the library. This woman put
herself in danger to save them. “What are you after?”
    Alya looked at Terra as though
she had forgotten about her. She then smiled and jumped down in front
of Terra. “Oh. Apologies again. I wanted to ask a few questions.”
    Terra scowled. “You want to
ask questions? You interrupt my day, invade my quarry, violate my
personal space, tell me you are a time traveler, and then you want to
ask questions?”
    Alya smiled and nodded.
    “Fine,” Terra said before
crossing her arms.
    “First. Who in Aion's origin
were those people at the library? The soldiers with silly red
armbands. I asked Minerva, but she lectured at length about the
history of Continuum Lambda.”
    Terra's brow raised. “You
don't know who the Nazi's are?”
    “Nazis? What an awkward
name.”
    “Haven't you ever heard of
World War Two?” Terra asked, putting a hand on her forehead.
    “You mean the Great War?
Continuum Alpha doesn't have another one of those.”
    Terra stared while her brow
lowered.
    “Well your continuum is
rather strange. It's one the few where European civilizations become
dominant. It's like... how would your culture put it?”
    “Backwater,” came a female
voice from Alya's shieldwatch.
    “Thank
you, Minerva. Yes. The Legacy Library is the only interesting thing
from this continuum. The Time cartographers from the Eighth Cohort
haven't mapped this part of Time
well. This makes it rather difficult for me to find and arrest
Hanns.”
    “So are you some kind of
time police force?”
    “Let's see. What is a good
way to describe it from within your culture's context? What are those
people called in those colorful picture books? They don capes and
masks to fight crime for justice.”
    “Superheroes?”
    “That's it! That's what we
are. We are good guys and we stop bad guys from destroying history.”
    “Why not tell everyone this?
Wouldn't it be easier to tell everyone about the dangers of time
travel rather than charging into libraries and beating people up?”
    Alya
frowned while waving dismissively. “Oh yes. That worked really
crashing well. After the First Temporal War, we decided to use a
different approach. Keeping time travel somewhat secret makes
temporal traffic manageable. Less traffic, less fools who try to
change history and cause Temporal Crashes by
accident.
I already explained all this to Hanns and he is still trying to abuse
time travel.”
    “Why show me any of this?”
    Alya smiled, leaning closer.
“In truth, you caught my attention. I made a mistake when I
underestimated Hanns. If it wasn't for you, then Hanns would have
escaped with the book. However, Hanns made a mistake as well. He
underestimated you. Now I wish to know why. Why did you try to stop
Hanns?”
    Terra felt a spike of fear.
Had she done something wrong? What if she had damaged history by
accident?
    Alya stood, expectant.
    Terra clenched her fists and
faced Alya, deciding that she had done nothing wrong. She wouldn't
flinch in the face of a time traveler or whatever this strange
delusion was. “I don’t know why I did that. It's not like a
wanted to. I was really scared, but at the moment I was the only one
that could stop him. For a moment, I thought I could be a heroine.”
    Alya's eyes narrowed in a
piercing stare for a long moment.