"Uh... you have a point."
Alice's unpredictable antics made Ellin laugh.
Between her fondness for Klee and the way Alice had been portrayed in the game, Ellin had a very favorable impression of Alice.
So she asked, "Alice, since you knew I'd travel through time and end up here, do you know when I can go back?"
"Or do you know how to send me back to my original point in time?"
"I'm fighting a very dangerous enemy. I need to get back as soon as possible."
"Oh... I see!"
Alice nodded and held her chin, looking thoughtful.
She studied Ellin carefully. "Let me see..."
"Hmm..."
"I understand now."
"There's a strange, twisted power wrapped around you."
"That power is precisely why you appeared here."
"Once it's spent, the power keeping you at this point in time will run out too, and you'll return to your original time."
"Then how long will it take for that power to dissipate?"
Ellin was rather anxious.
"Hmm... from what I can see, it'll take at least eight days to dissipate."
"Eight days?!"
Ellin was startled. "How is that okay? Osial is still there! I can't just stay here for eight days!"
"Relax, relax!"
Alice waved a hand and grinned at Ellin. "You came from the future. To you, this is the past."
"Time flows differently here than it does at your original point in time."
"By my estimate, if you spend eight days here, only eight seconds might pass in your original world..."
"You're very powerful. Sending you into the past would take a terrifying amount of energy. Keeping you at this point in time for eight seconds is already quite a feat."
"So that's how it works."
Ellin nodded.
As far as she knew, Alice was an all-purpose witch with a vast