Kaji frowns deeply at the mention of the Sage. "You'd trust him, after what he put us through the last time we went to him for help?" A deep sigh. "But we owe it to Ib to ask anyway."

"Kalki was. I didn't recognize the others. It makes me wonder if Kalki is not actually originally from this world. If she was with the Heroes last time. Her diary," Kaji remembers reading it, but he stands up and looks around for it. "Where'd you put it?" Last he checked, it had been kept here, at the Observtory.

"She had said things about doppelgangers. I remember that much. So what if the person I met, fifty years ago, was Kalki's doppelganger, from last cycle. But whatever happened to her after she fell into the Crystal of Fire? What we've got here is very different than the woman I saw."