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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3085215" data-attributes="member: 4441">Coron looks vaguely pleased, and one of the other women spears him with a glance.  "I told you they'd figure it out Roma," he says to her.  "Yes, but not that they've be when!  Tema nearly died," she shoots back.  "Too late to place blame," he points out.  "Captain's name was Fee.  Nice girl, if a little hysterical."We were looking for you, we knew who you were.  Chronotrypsis is saying you're all dead to the rest of the members of the kingdom, even as he sends out bounty hunters.  He claims he sabotaged your ship and that you were all burned to death by a rogue fire elemental he let loose on it.  He doesn't want the rest of the Kingdom to have someone to ralley around.  We were supposed to come and cart your bodies away and scatter your things so no one would be able to raise you.  And then you went and escaped, so we became a liability.""One hundred generations of service we gave those smug sebets for our chance at greatness and they said we didn't arrive in time!" Roma snarls, slamming one fist into the other.  Coron nods, far calmer than her, but with anger clear in his face."We're time elemental get, way far back.  We're tempest twins, though that doesn't mean anything to you.  We can leap ahead in time as much as we like, but we can only got back in time a few seconds.  Enough to help yourself out of a sticky situation, but not enough to warn yourself of something like this.  And we can't travel through space really, only time.  When Chronotrypsis betrayed us, we didn't know it was coming.  And we could leap ahead in time to get out of his immediate reach, but that meant he could still leave guards for us at that exact same place and get us when we joined the time-stream.  He thought we'd go way far ahead, he didn't expect us to only go a half-day.  The guards weren't prepared, we fought our way out, and then got to the Stormdancer and pretended we were just simple humans that had petitioned and were told to come back later when the 'little troubles' the kingdom was haven't weren't so bad.  About three days later Pretik got in a brawl with one of the sailors and starting jumping back to help himself.  Captain Fee saw that, figured him for time-elemental blood and threw us off the ship," Coron explains, his eyes hard and fists curled.Anna comes up from below decks with Tulie and throws down blankets to the newcomers.  Roma spares them a glance of pure gratitude and tries to warm up the shivering Tema.</blockquote>

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