"Stop this." Jack steps forward with the clacking of heels, fluffs his wig back into place from the ruffling it's taken from the lightning attacks. Still in Performer garb, but all of the joking mood that he had aboard the ship is gone.

"What's this about the Lady Kalki? She's fine, she's alive." Isn't she? Jack would be lying if he said there wasn't a deep fear right in the pit of the stomach at the idea that maybe their trip back in time has affected more than he thought. Didn't she disappear without a trace when they had gotten back?

"Tell us! And maybe we wont destroy you."