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Well, if the entire vision was already in his mind, then perhaps he didn't need Pauline to control it for him. Perhaps he could skip to the end himself. He hadn't yet seen how the monster acquired had acquired weather powers--and possibly teleportation powers--but he figured it wasn't a priority to know that information, right now. It would be good to know more about how they worked, sure, but Roman and the others had been missing for hours already. There was no telling what their situation was like, right now.

And hell, maybe he could go back and rewatch these parts of the vision later.

He concentrated on what he wanted. To see further along the timeline. To see his friends.

The vision responded. Time distorted and warped before his eyes, before his mind.

He saw them.

They appeared in a cloud of smoke, all seemingly confused and even having trouble keeping their own balance.

But they were not in the underground facility like Hector might have expected. They were somewhere in the forest. Somewhere very strange-looking. Giant mushrooms that glowed in the dark were almost as numerous as the trees, and a slight mist filled the area. A thin layer of water splashed with each stumbling footstep, and more strange creatures began to appear.

What in the hell was he even looking at? How many more were there now? How much time had he skipped?

He saw the Beast, though. It was different again, but the vision made it somehow clear that it was the same creature. And these weird critters all around it, were they its children?

It had created a little empire of its own.

And Roman and the others had been sucked right into the middle of it. Hector could see the reapers with them, too.