Great. Now the seals were giving him names. And asking questions. Why would they do that? The sorceress had been manipulative as hell, but that was just to get Seifer on side. Why would she bother to play this kind of game? She didn't do this for fun, she did it for power.

Why keep up the charade?

Irvine didn't really like the potential answers. Like the fact that maybe these were real people and the sorceress had put seals in 'em anyway. Was that possible? If it was possible she'd have done it already, wouldn't she?

Movement caught Irvine's eye and over the edge of the roof he saw the man he'd accidentally resurrected step into view. That was stupid. Irvine hadn't known he was there. It was stupid in that way of people who didn't actually want to hurt anyone. Like him.

Constructs weren't that considerate.

"Irvine," he said at last, and tiredly. "Irvine Kinneas. There was a sorceress. She did a time whammy. Compressed the past, present and future. We beat her, but ... then we had to find our way out. I should've come out in my time, with my friends. I shouldn't've come out here. I don't know this place. So it's gotta belong to her, or be someplace in my future. Or way into the past."