Rialynn's mouth pursed into a small 'o' of understanding...shortly before the full realization of his words set in. "So because we defeated the weapon, we went to the place where we wouldn't get mauled by those weird purple zombie things?" She held her coffee cup with both hands, looking more than a little nervous. "Then...in that vision, where we opened a portal to the rift, we must have gone to the wrong place!"

She didn't know much about computers...or anything at all, honestly...but if she thought of it as a story with two diverging paths, it made it a little easier for her to understand.

"Um...aren't they working on a project at the lab that'll open that rift? Maybe they should...I don't know...smash it together with Palitutu's code...thing?"