There was a response at last.
Pali had told him he could try asking this person.
Ekhatol.
"Hello?" Kumiloni greeted her politely.
"We have a friend who came here and got trapped in an endless loop of time."
"We're really worried about him, so we came to check on him."
Kumiloni kindly explained why they had come.
She didn't immediately assume the other person was an enemy. She still intended to speak with her peacefully and learn what was going on.
"Since you know coming here will curse you with time, trapping you in an endless cycle of resets and rebirths, why did you come?"
Coming here had been Izpalut's decision.
He thought he had a way to solve the problem of the time loop, and he was also very interested in this place.
So he wanted to have a look.
After all, if Lu Cang was right, this world really was in danger.
"Because... we're worried about our companion," Kumiloni replied.
The voice inside fell silent again, leaving only the vague, wandering noises.
Perhaps she no longer wanted to respond.
Or perhaps she was thinking about how to answer.
Iz studied the patterns on the door, thinking about the magic of time.
Lu Cang had come to this door more than once, too.
Each time, he had gained something else from it.
For example, when he brought other people into the ruins, they could still leave normally, at least as far as he could tell.
Lu Cang could lead them out without trouble.
They didn't vanish into thin air and enter their own time loops.
At first, he had wondered if they had already entered the loop.
Perhaps the people he brought out had actually experienced the loop already.
But if that were the case, they should have had