After a moment or two, Ilias approached her.

"Hey." he replied.

"Thank you for coming." he told her, able to sense the immense power within her.

"...how are you feeling?" he asked.

"I mean... well... yeah. How are you?" he repeated.

"Been... holding up well enough?"

"Well... I'll take it." Ilias sighed.

He then led her through the department, until they reached a large room, where Kiah already was. But not Cameron.

"We had a hunter help us with this." Ilias told her. "However... well... suffice to say, while his goal was identical to ours, he did not wish to spend much more time with us." he went on.

"Long story." he muttered further, shaking his head slightly.

"But! We think we have a compound that will drastically reduce the speed of what's happening to you will... happen." he told her.

"As it stands, you have... er... well, as of now, weeks to a month." he continued. "With this, we should be able to extend that to outright YEARS." he assured her with a smile.

Ilias nodded at her in response, and set to drawing out a rune-like design on the floor, with everything culminating in a triangle shape in the middle of it.

"Step into the triangle." he told her.

"We'll then give you something to imbibe." he went on.

"Once you do, we'll put specific mana into the markings, and they should react to what you took in." he continued.

"And after that... well... it's just a matter of letting the compound and markings do their thing."

"KIAH!" the one on the other end shouted, but the sheer force of it all was too much. It seemed she couldn't really say anything any longer, and it felt like the very structure of the building was being pushed to its very limits. Which was a feat in and of itself.

And he knew what this could mean. He knew what it DID mean. Something had gone wrong with the process.

And indeed it had. VERY wrong. Instead of slowing down the process, it had accelerated it. Immensely. There was nobody else in the department except Ilias and Jordan, and Jordan seemed to be immune from the effects of Kiah's rune right now. But Ilias wasn't. He felt his soul started to quickly and violently be torn from his body, and it would be mere seconds before he became a chain link, if Kiah didn't stop.

However, at that point, it seemed like time and space itself warped before him and Jordan, and a man clad in light blue jeans, worn grey sneakers, a shirt with the sleeves torn off, a small satchel over his shoulder, and a strange technological device that looked like a massively oversized watch on one of his wrists. His skin was almost that of a Spanish permanent tan, his hair was a short and ruffled dirty blonde, with silver streaks throughout, and his eyes were a hollow white.

"What the!?" he exclaimed, seeing what was happening.

"SHIT!" he yelled, rushing towards Jordan and taking a large syringe out of his satchel. He got close to Jordan, doing his best to withstand the immense power surging from her, and jabbed the syringe into the base of her neck, injecting the dark green liquid into her completely and fully.

The one on the other side was silent for a moment.

"Yes." he replied.

"Are YOU all right?" he asked her.

"I... yeah. Yeah, I think so." Kiah responded.

"Good." he responded. "Now GO." he told her.

"Find out what the ever loving HELL that was!" he ordered. "And find out what's happening!" he demanded. "It felt like the process sped up, and now there's nothing!" he continued. "So go and find out what happened down there!"

"Someone that's here to help." he told her.

"He'll be fine." he then said, referring to Ilias.

"Now, what I did to her won't last very long, time is of the very essence here." he warned Kiah.

"So we need to get to work and make this compound." he continued.

"I've written the recipe for it, as well as the formulae necessary." he finished.

The newcomer nodded, and then looked around.

"Right." he said.

"At this point, you're the only one that can do this." he told her.

"We don't have the time to call someone else in."

The vial she almost dropped would have invalidated their 20 minutes of work, so the newcomer was panicked when she nearly dropped it, and sighed heavily in relief when she caught it.

He then watched her lean onto the table, weight on her hands.

"What?" he asked her.

"What's wrong?" he asked further.

'Damn it, we're so close!' he then thought, wondering how to keep this going.

He looked at the shaking vial, and cursed internally.

"Crap, crap, crap." he repeated.

'What to do, what to do!?' he thought.

"There anything here that can help?" he asked.

"No." Kiah responded. "I just wish I wasn't so dead on my feet." she then said.

The newcomer froze for a moment, before sighing, smirking, and snapping his fingers.

That's when Kiah felt a jolt of energy course through her. It wasn't going to be for long, but she felt like she could easily do this now.

The newcomer accepted the vial and held it securely, making sure he wouldn't drop it.

"Questions later. Work now." he told her.

"We have precious little time left, and I will answer... well..." he stammered, before thinking about it.

"I'll answer what I can." he said.

"Anyway, this last step is the most important, and if it's done right, her life will be spared." he finished, looking at Jordan.