<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=13066.msg549470#msg549470">Quote from: Khayin on 15-03-2008, 06:04:07</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"This isn't just about serial rapists or even cultists... is it?" he said, the eeriness of the situation dawning on him.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Masato's been around Matt long enough by now to know that he always comes off deadly serious.  Even so, there's a new sound in his voice.  Fear?  Dread?  Resignation?  Honesty?  "No.  It isn't."  He sighs, and runs fingers through his hair.  "There are...there are cracks in the world, Masato.  Things can go through them.  Sometimes things from Outside find their way in.  Sometimes people, by accident or on purpose, find their way out.  Sometimes they get taken.  Sometimes they don't find their way back."<br/><br/>"I...I've seen this happen before.  And it's happened here before, back in the 60s.  It's happening now.  Our Sensei has probably been taken through one of those cracks.  She could be very close by-" he brushes his hand over empty air, "As thin a distance as that between light and shadow.  But we won't see her, unless we find a crack ourselves."  He leans down his head, scribbles a few notes, and sets his laptop to hibernate.  "I could make it stop, you know.  I could shut the crack.  We could.  But everyone they've taken, they wouldn't ever come back."