"Nine months?" Jubilost demanded. "I've only been on this expedition for A month! If that!"<br/><br/>There's cries of shock and alarm, and demands for explanations, which Devaguea begins to provide - but, partway through his explanation, he'd begin to feel the monolith's power starting to shift. Whatever he had done to it was starting to wear off, and given their reactions, might end with him trapped in here, frozen in time, as well!<br/><br/>"What? No! We just bedded down for the night with our alarm spell active!"