Disclaimer: I don't own Bioshock.

Reece felt as though the Vox were now at a disadvantage.

With all the Vigor powers he was packing he felt almost unstoppable. And his newest power made it so that he and Elizabeth were untouchable. As long as he had a steady stream of Salts to back up his power usage the rebels never stood a chance.

The teens blazed a trail of destruction through the rest of the Vox that were still within the station. They had the numbers and the drive, but Reece had developed a good sense of strategy when it came to getting out of these situations in the last few days.

After expelling half his ammo, four bottles of Salts and opening several tears, the duo reached the end of the station.

"I'm really not liking how easily this comes to me." Reece thought firing two rounds into the last rebel between them and the exit. Dumping the spent clip from his Repeater and loading a new one as he lead Elizabeth up the steps to the turnstile ahead.

Bodies of Vox and a Fireman laid around the small corridor infront of a department store behind them. Over a dozen more similar bodies and the remains of a patriot in the circular chamber behind them when they passed through.

"These lock when we pass through. We won't be able to return." said Elizabeth as they moved through the turning gate.

"No other way to go but forward." Reece replied as they stood in a check-in/check-out lobby. A few candles burning on the desks as they headed toward the elevator that would take them out of the building. He hit the switch, but nothing happened. "The hell?"

The panel for the lift was different than the others they had used before. This one had a combination lock that kept the door sealed. Punching in a few random numbers, the traveler cursed when he couldn't get the elevator to open up. "It's a simple dual-dial lock. My books said most fools keep the combination no more than twenty feet away." said his charge.

"Then let's see if these morons were dumb enough to keep it close." he said as they began to shuffle through the books and papers on the desks around the room.

Most of the things they found didn't help. just random manifests and old newspapers. Reece had just finished going through a large book when Elizabeth called him over to her side of the room back toward the turnstiles.

She pushed a couple books off of a clipboard, "I think this is it." she said looking at the digits on the paper under them.

"If you don't mind me asking, why are you so knowledgeable with lock-picking and code-breaking?" Reece asked, curious since he first saw her do it.

"When you put a person in a cage, they develop an interest in such things." she replied as they looked over the code.

Her companion nodded, "Guess you're right about that. No one deserves to be locked up like an animal."

Elizabeth reached out and grasped his hand with hers, her thimbal brushing the back of his still bandaged hand. "And I won't be locked up again. Mat-" she stopped cold when they heard the wall next to them moving up into the ceiling.

A bronze statue of Comstock appeared, similar in size and scale to the one that was in the Monument tower. The eyes glowed yellow as a familiar tune began playing from its inner workings. Not a few seconds afterward, the whole station shook when something large had landed on the roof.

Reece pulled Elizabeth down behind the desk, both keeping as quiet as possible as they heard the tell-tale call of Songbird as he began searching for them.

Another crash was heard and small chunks of debris fell down on them. Elizabeth covered her head, pure terror in her eyes at the thought at being captured again as Reece peeked up over the desk they were behind.

Outside the window across from them, a large shadow looked over the glass. Songbird knelt down, its lone working eye peering into the room where the device had signaled for it. The light behind the lens changed from yellow to orange as it forced its head through the window and into the room.

The traveler ducked back down, Elizabeth clinging to his side as an orange spotlight projected around the room from the creature's eye. Searching for them as they stayed out of sight as best they could.

Both teens could hear their hearts pounding in their ears as the orange light scanned over their heads a few moments before vanishing. Reece poked his head up and saw Songbird pull its head out of the shattered window, eye switching back to yellow before giving a flap of its mighty wings and taking off.

The building shook one last time as the tension in the air lifted when the creature disappeared."Holy shit." Reece muttered as they stood up. He turned to his left and saw Elizabeth gone. "Elizabeth?" he looked around and saw her running over to the elevator, punching in the code they had located.

Walking over to join her, "Hey, you-"

"Promise me." she said cutting him off.

"I will stop him." her companion said serious, more than ready to tear Comstock down no matter what was thrown at him..

Elizabeth turned to face him, "No." she said shaking her head slowly with a gente expression. "That is an oath you cannot keep." Her smaller hands grasped his slightly larger left one and raised it to the side of her face. "I want you to promise me...if it comes to it..."

Her face morphed into one of finality, her hands taking his and wrapping it around her slender throat. "You will not let him take me back."

"NO!" Reece ripped his hand away, stepping back as though he had touched a burning skillet. "No fucking way! I've killed too many people already, you will NOT be on that list."

"Being captured is DEATH for me Reece!" Elizabeth screamed back. "I'd rather die on my own terms than let Comstock or anyone else experiment on me again!"

The traveler breathed in and out through his nose. Trying his best to quell the growing anger in his chest. "I'm not making that promise. There's always another way. And to be blunt, Elizabeth? I'd rather kill MYSELF before doing that!"

The two stared at each other in silence, the doors to the elevator slid open with a soft 'ding' snapping them out of it long enough to step inside. The lift beginning to descend after the traveler hit the switch on the wall.

Elizabeth stood at the opposite wall, eyes gazing out the window as they began going down. She heard her companion take a deep breath before moving across the small space to stand behind her. "I know you're scared." he said, all traces of his earlier frusteration now gone. "Things always get worse before they get better. You just need to have a little faith."

"Reece, I do have faith." she said turning to him. "In you, in your promises. But it just seems like no matter how hard we try Comstock finds some way to keep us trapped here. How do you keep faith when the world is against you?"

Reece reached out and touched her face, "Endure. That's all you can do. It's never over until there's nothing left." his thumb dragged softly along her cheek, "I won't let him take you. I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it. Comstock may be persistant, but I'm as stubborn as they come. And he'll find out soon enough just how stubborn I can be."

Elizabeth said nothing. Instead stepping forward and pressing herself into his frame. "I don't want you to die." she mumbled with her cheek against his collarbone. The sound of his heart beating easing her chaotic thoughts.

"I can't promise that I won't, it's an inevitability that can't be avoided." said the traveler. "But this place won't be what takes me. Like I said, I'm stubborn." His charge giggled, easing the air around them just as the sound of an explosion echoed through the lift.

Outside, the elevators window revealed an open docking area that had become a battlefield. Comstocks forces were still fighting the Vox but were losing ground rather quickly from the rebels' numbers.

"The Vox are tearing this place apart." Elizabeth said seeing bullets flying back and forth between the two sides. A rebel troop transport flew overhead raining explosive rounds down below. The prophet's forces returned fire, managing to hit one of the engines and making it pitch hard to the side. One of the rounds going wide...

...and heading straight for them.

They barely had time to brace themselves as the elevator shook from the explosive. Windows shattering and the lift to come to a halt and lean off track. Reece saw a skyway just outside the shattered windows and took out his sky-hook, prompting Elizabeth to do the same as they leapt from the doomed elevator and on to the rails as the lift came loose and fell.

Riding the skyway over the heads of the two forces below, the duo dropped down on to a rooftop along the way and assessed their situation. "I think it's best not to get involved here, let these guys fight and we can slip past them in the confusion." Reece said looking down at the firefight with his Repeater in hand.

Another rebel transport came up and docked with the station, but before anyone could step off to fight a Handyman came down and began tearing the Vox apart.

Desiding to remain out of sight, the teens leapt on to another skyway and hopped off on to a platform leading to a locked gate. Reece pressed himself against a stack of sandbags and kept his eyes locked on the two sides still fighting while Elizabeth worked on the gate.

"Reece, it's open!" she called over before slipping inside.

After making sure no one saw them, he followed after her and made sure the gate was firmly shut. The halls beyond filled with smoke from fires that were set in the stores that lined the walls.

They kept their wits about them as they moved through the darkened halls. The sounds of combat and thunder outside filling the silence as they made it back outside and made their way into the Market District. The whole sector nothing more than a ghost town.

"What a waste. How's the city going to come back from this?" Elizabeth asked as they treaded along the walkway before them.

"Maybe it's better if it doesn't." said Reece as he kept his weapon up and checked every doorway, alley and window along their path. Lightning flashed overhead giving them a little more light in the darkened streets. They passed through another archway like the one at the start of the district in time to see two rebels gun down a bunch of civilians like a firing squad.

Reece leveled his Repeater and emptied half a clip into the men before they knew what was happening. "Patriot!" Elizabeth shouted as a crank gun roared from the top of a small flight of stairs. The automation came down the steps and kept firing while the traveler brought up his hand and created a magnetic shield with his newest power. Absorbing the heavy rounds that struck the barrier and condensing them into a ball of metal and energy in the center of his palm.

When it was strong enough, Reece hurled the ball of energy like a baseball at the patriot and causing an explosion that rocked the machines frame. Sparks and smoke billowing from its body as the teen emptied the rest of his weapons clip into it and took it down completely.

"God I'm loving this new power." he thought drinking a Salt to replenish his abilities. "Though...it's pretty rough on my Salt supplies. Better use it sparingly."

Reloading his weapon, they moved farther into the district. Encountering a handful of rebels that were still prowling around the area. Either for more targets or to steal whatever was valuable neither of them knew which.

They were put down fast before they could regroup as the teens continued on. Past ransacked homes and businesses, some of them burning slowly to the ground with the bodies of those who once inhabited them sprawled out in the silent streets.

A few shops were raided for anything useful, they came away with a little ammo and a few Silver Eagles as they searched for the entrance to Comstock House.

The sounds of combat could be heard off in the distance, but other than that the only thing the two of them heard was the sound of their own footsteps on the path below them bouncing off of the walls.

They had just passed through a small plaza filled with damaged and overturned carts when Reece held his hand up. Pressing their backs to the nearby wall, the traveler peered around the corner and saw three rebels patroling the street. "Got three of them. Can't see a way around them." he said looking around at the environment.

A lot of places for cover, but it went both ways. And the longer they stayed out in the open the more likely it was for reinforcements to show up. He needed a good angle to take them out. Looking up, he saw a couple freight hooks on the sides of the buildings down the street.

Strapping the Repeater across his back, Reece drew his sky-hook and his hand cannon before turning to Elizabeth. "I'll be right back." He held out his arm and activted the device as the magnets help launch him up to the closest hook.

Looking down and seeing that the rebels hadn't notice him yet, he raised the powerful handgun and fired. The round punching a hole through the first man and splattering blood across the pavement. The other two had their weapons up but Reece was already moving.

Leaping to the next freight hook and firing another shot and nearly blowing the second rebel's head off his shoulders.

The last man got into cover and returned fire, the teen's barrier absorbing the rounds as he leapt to the last freight hook which was right above the man's position. Releasing the hooks hold and dropping to the ground and driving the revolving tip of the sky-hook into the man's head and crushing his skull from the impact.

Area now clear, Reece whistled. Signaling Elizabeth as she came down the street and rejoined him. "The asylum shouldn't be too much farther now." she said after they checked around for anything useful and began moving again. The next street they entered was worse than the others had been. The ground had literally caved in revealing open sky beneath the island they were floating on.

A couple of buildings were loose on their foundations and were leaning dangerously over the gaping holes in the ground. "Chirst. How much can these islands take before they fall?" Reece wondered as they treaded more lightly.

"The fact that the foundation itself took damage says that there was heavy fighting around here." said Elizabeth. "But as long as the generators haven't been damaged, and the primary supports remain in tact, we shouldn't have to worry about falling."

They passed another building that looked to just be barely holding on when they caught sight of something. A large hole had been blown through the outer wall exposing the large room inside. And in the center of that room was a tear.

However, it looked different than the ones they encountered before. This one looked like an actual 'rip' in space and time and had a strange red glow around the edges. Music could be heard clearly through the tear that filled the dismal silence.

"That's a tear. But there's something wrong with it." said Elizabeth as they moved in for a closer look. "It looks unstable."

As if to prove her thoughts, the tear flashed a couple of times before vanishing into thin air. "Do tears do that often?" her companion asked.

"Not all of them. From what I can understand, tears appear sporadically from time to time. Some are just more solid than others. That one just happened to be too weak to stay open very long." she explained as they approached the edge of a large hole in the street.

Reece motioned to the edge were there was just enough room for them to go around it if they stood side by side. Moving slowly, they traversed the large hole and made it to the other side where the entrance to a cemetary was set up on their left. "One thing still bugs me." he said while they walked. "Why would Comstock hold himself up in a nut house? You'd think he'd have some kind of base set up with enough armaments to hold off an army."

"Perhaps the asylum is that 'base'." Elizabeth offered. "Who knows what kind of security he might have set up around the place." They made their way across a small bridge and got a good look at this section of the city. The amount of fires and smoke had seemed to have increased. Large red banners billowed in the wind from areas that were most likely under the Vox's control.

"Look at those pennants. Seems like the Vox have chosen their favorite color." said Elizabeth.

"Personally, I prefer blue." the traveler said before glancing up at the asylum in the distance. The ominous structure hovering on its own island and seemed to be the epicenter for the lightning storm that was stretching out above this corner of Columbia.

Through the darkened clouds, Reece could make out a structure that looked like a bridge system connecting the island out there to the one they were on. "I think the path there is over here." he said leading them to the square closeby.

The sign above them read; 'Z.H. Comstock Victory Square'. It was a wide open space with a statue of the Prophet himself wielding a saber in the very center. Behind it, a flight of steps leading up to the entrance building that would lead them to Comstock House.

A statue of Lady Comstock was kneeling on a pedistal in the center of the stairs facing the building and seemed to be untouched with bodies of both police officers and rebels laid scattered along the stairs.

"Beyond that gate lies Comstock House." said Elizabeth as they went up the steps. Approaching the gate where a strange lock sat in the center of it. Resembling an old school version of a palm reader with Comstock's face above it.

They approached the lock and Reece pressed a button as the eyes on the 'face' lit up. "Lady Comstock, how lovely to see you." an automated voice said from the lock. "Wonderful of you to make the journey, especially considering your painful death 19 years ago."

"Lady Comstock?" Reece asked confused.

Elizabeth looked down at her outfit then back at the lock. "The dress...the thing has mistaken me for Lady Comstock." She reached up and placed her hand over the scanner.

A moment later, the lights flashed red. "Your fingerprints do not seem to be your own today, Lady Comstock. Are you unwell?"

"This isn't going to work. We need another idea." said the traveler looking over the gate for any weaknesses.

"Actually...it just might work." Elizabeth said in thought.

"Lady Comstock is dead, Elizabeth. I don't think she's in the state of mind to help us right now." Reece said raising an eyebrow at his charge.

"True...and I think it's time I paid my respects to my 'Mother'." she said walking past her companion and back down the steps where they came from.

Reece was confused a moment before the full force of her words hit him. "Pay your respects to...wait...you can't possibly mean-"

X

"Grave robbing?" he said standing next to Elizabeth in front of the 'Memorial Gardens Cemetary' that they had passed by before. "You sure about this?" he asked as they stepped through the archway and following along the path.

"It's the only way to get through the gate and reach the asylum." said Elizabeth leading the way through the main structure and down into the burial site where all the headstones were set up. "There it is." she said pointing at a crypt at the far end of the grounds that had a large neon sign glowed. 'Our Lady: In Memoriam.'

Two statues of Lady Comstock's likeness were set up on either side of the gate leading into the crypt and seemed to be well kept despite everyone clearing out.

Boots crunching over piles of dead roses, Reece approached the gate and found it sealed tight. Not even a lock on it to allow entry. Elizabeth held her hand out, a flash of light later and a lock appeared on the gate via tear. She then stepped forward and undid the lock and pushed the doors open.

Before them laid Lady Comstock herself. Her corpse inside a reinforced glass coffin wearing a beautiful dress with a bouqet of flowers in her hand. A large painting of her took up the opposite wall with two large torches burning brightly under it adding light to the small room

But what was strange was that she looked exactly the way she did when she died. No decay, no aging, even the flowers looked like they had been picked recently.

"They have her preserved in an airtight chamber." Elizabeth answered the unspoken question. "Her fingerprints will get us into Comstock House."

"I think I should draw the line at desacrating a corpse, Elizabeth." Reece said shaking his head. "There could be another way to get the gate open."

She shot him a look, "If we want to get into the asylum and find a way to get out of here we don't have a lot of options." Approaching the chamber, Elizabeth crossed her arms over her chest. "Hello mother. How are you? All locked up in there, huh?" she said bitterly. "Looks like you and I have some common ground."

Reece felt uncomfortable. The way his charge spoke to the dead woman made out to be her mother made a chill go up his back. She was angry. And she had every right to be. Lady Comstock was another person that was a part of Elizabeth's upbringing and she too had bore some of the blame for what happened to her.

"Let me do it." he said approaching the coffin.

"No." Elizabeth said stopping him.

"Elizabeth, let me do it." the traveler pushed. "You're pissed off, I get it. And you have every right to be at this woman as much as her asshole of a husband. Just let me handle this, okay?"

The young woman sighed and took a step back while her companion examined the chamber. "Christ...how advanced is this universe really? In 2015 most ofl this shit is nothing but a scientist's wet-dream." he through feeling around the glass for a release switch or something that would help him open it.

Finding a durable lock on the opposite side, he shouldered his Repeater and took out his hand cannon. "Well...let's say hello." he said pressing the barrel of the weapon against the lock and thumbing the hammer back.

The lights around the room suddently shut off.

Movement could be heard along the walls and ceiling of the crypt, like the stones that made up the structure were shifting and changing shape. A small spotlight came on and illuminated Elizabeth. "You see child?" the aged voice of Zachary Comstock resounded through the small chamber making them tense, "You chose to follow a false shepard, and he has led you astray!"

Lights came on revealing large subwoofers around them. They all kicked on at once and began to pulsate, Elizabeth screamed in pain as the devices began to suck wisps of white energy from her body.

"ELIZABETH!" Reece roared running to her side as she fell to her knees.

"What I do, I do for love! What lion does not cringe to see their cub in pain?" Comstock preached.

"Make it stop Reece! MAKE IT STOP! AHHHHHHHHH!" the young woman screamed as the pain intensified, more of her power being forcibly drained from her.

Reece gritted his teeth, raising his hand cannon and firing rounds into the nearest subwoofer until it exploded. Switching to his Repeater quickly and shooting at another one until the clip ran empty forcing him to reload."COMSTOCK! I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" he bellowed as another device was destroyed.

The energy stopped being taken from Elizabeth, the devices redirected and shot all the energy they collected straight into Lady Comstock's coffin. "If you won't listen to me, perhaps you will listen to your mother!" Comstock said as the light around the chamber became blinding.

Reece shielded Elizabeth with his body as a blast of power ripped through the room. Blowing the gate behind them open and obliterating the stasis chamber in the crypt. Looking up as the light faded, the traveler felt as though someone had injected ice into his blood.

Hovering above the shattered coffin, was a creature that looked anything but normal. Clearly female in shape, with an ethreal glow about her that was un-natural. Her skin and clothes were dark grey and black, and the shreaded jacket across her shoulders moved about like demonic wings.

Glowing blue-white eyes leered down at them with something resembling hate and malice while hands with claw tipped fingers flexed. She opened her mouth revealing a bright glow similar to her eyes as she let out a sound that could only be described as a shriek of the damned.

Reece held Elizabeth closer, despite his own fear of the creature hovering over them as it shot forward like a bullet. Out the broken gate and outside on the grounds where she vanished.

Heart still beating in his ears, Reece looked down at his charge who looked paler than usual and her breathing was shallow. "Elizabeth? Elizabeth talk to me! Are you okay?" he asked frantically checking her over as her eyes slowly opened.

"I'm...I don't...no...Wh-Where did she go?" she asked weakly.

"She disappeared. You need to rest, whatever the hell those things were they did a real number on you." Reece said concerned as he sat her against the nearby wall gently.

"No! I'm...getting that hand." Elizabeth said trying to stand. "We have to find her."

Reece pushed her back down, "You're not doing anything until you get your strength back. And besides, the woman's a damn ghost. I don't think we can get anything from her to help us now."

"She's not a ghost. Not really." Elizabeth said shaking her head. "Comstock...he...he used me. T-To power that device, he opened some kind of tear."

Whatever else was going to be said was cut off by a bone chilling voice from out in the cemetary. "Child! Child! You are the lie that spewed from my womb. You are the lie, the lie, the lie!"

Reece checked the ammo on his weapons before standing, "What are you doing?" his charge asked with worry in her gaze.

"If you're right, and this thing's not really a ghost. Then it can be killed." he said pulling the bolt back on his Repeater and heading for the exit. "Wait here where it's safe. I'll deal with the Casper wannabe." without another word he strode out into the burial grounds.

The ghostly image of Lady Comstock hovered in the middle of the grounds. The glow about her pulsing like the beat of a heart. "Listen lady, we didn't go off and spoil your nap. So don't be chucking venom at us because of the rude wake up." said the traveler keeping his finger on the trigger.

Lady Comstock just floated and stared at him for a few moments. Out of nowhere she sent out another shriek that seemed to shake the very ground he was standing on. White energy lashing out of her body and slithering into the ground as it continued to shake.

There was a pulse in the air, followed by the bodies of once dead soldiers being pulled from the ground glowing just like the one that pulled them up.

The corpses hung in the air for a second before they started twitching. Their eyes snapping open revealing pure glowing white sockets as they were dropped to the ground on their feet, standing upright on their own as they faced the now very shocked teen.

"You can't...be fucking...serious..." he muttered to himself, not believing his eyes as the walking corpses pulled out guns and opened fire.

Reece snapped out of it when he saw his barrier flare to life and raising his weapon. Putting several rounds through each corpse until they both dropped to the ground dead once more. "Reece?! What's going on out there?!" Elizabeth called from inside the crypt.

"This crazy bitch is raising the dead!" he shouted back as the spectre hovered over a group of headstones. More corpses were torn from the ground and reanimated before they went on the attack, forcing the traveler to open fire on them. One of the dead came at him with a rusty knife and was cut down right before the Repeater ran empty.

Lady Comstock flew over the graveyard, shrieking in anger as her summoned minions were cut down one after the other. She swooped down and sent a pulse of energy that stretched across the corpses Reece had just killed.

Reloading his gun, the teen looked up in time to see the walking corpses he just killed rise again and go on the attack. "Fucking HELL!" He roared, putting new bullet holes into the undead soldiers as the apparition began summoning more to fight for her.

"This isn't good...I'm gonna run out of ammo if this keeps up!" he thought taking several more down before ducking behind a large headstone for cover. Peering over, he saw Lady Comstock hovering within the burial site. "I hope to god Elizabeth was right." He said aiming at the spectre and firing a couple shots.

The rounds found purchase. The creature screamed from the sudden attack and vanished into the air. Reappearing on the balcony overlooking the cemetary.

Surprised that it actually worked, Reece switched back to his hand cannon and charged electricity up his left arm. "Alright then, let's kick this up." Standing, he put a round quickly through the head of the closest corpse. It's head blowing apart but leaving no blood as it fell headless to the ground.

Spinning toward the balcony, he fired a volley of electric bolts that all hit their target. Firing round after round from the powerful sidearm in his other hand as his barrier deflected the oncoming gunfire from the corpses that were still standing.

Lady Comstock screamed and teleported again, this time a few feet away from Reece as he started launching fire blasts and fire-grenades into her. His barrier shattering like magic glass as he fired the remaining round he had into the few corpses around him.

Unlike her minions, the living spirit's body was frail and could only take so much damage. Which must have been the reason why she summoned the dead to fight for her and making Reece fight twice as hard to fight against her.

But even without his barrier, the teen was able to dodge direct attacks from two corpses as they came at him from different sides. Raising his hand cannon, he put a round through the face of the one that got to him first. He spun on the ball of his foot and kicked the damaged club out of the hand of the other.

A jet of water blasted into the corpse's chest right afterward and sent it smashing headfirst through a headstone where it laid on the ground motionless.

Reece's small victory was short lived when a sudden pulse of energy sent him crashing to his back, causing him to drop his hand cannon as he rolled across the ground. The spectre now baring down on him and making the air surrounding them feel ice cold and suffocating.

Powers now empty and unable to reload, he glared up at the creature's glowing eyes. "You know, my grandparents taught me to only fear god should I do something horrible in my life. After everything I've done here...I do fear him a bit."

Lady Comstock growled deep in her throat while the teen reached behind himself and took out the only weapon he still had loaded. "I may fear the almighty...but I sure as shit don't fear you." He raised his Heater as the spectre was about to shriek and fired.

The powerful blast hitting her dead center and causing her to burst into a white cloud of energy that quickly turned into a vortex. Reece covered his eyes as the glowing malestrom dissipated into the air before getting to his feet.

"My god..." Reece looked back to the crypt and saw Elizabeth stumbling out. "Just what the hell was that?" he asked walking over and supporting her as she moved.

"I don't know...what am I?" she asked right back not expecting an answer. "It's really hard to describe what's become of her now. I still can't wrap my head around it."

Her companion shook his head, "Christ, is she even alive?" he asked loading a fresh round into his Heater.

"Why do you ask 'what'?" both teens spun around, Reece with his weapon up, only for them to see the Lutece twins standing among the headstones. Both with their feet within seperate graves as they dug the holes deeper.

"When the delicious question is 'when'?" Rosalind asked after her brother.

"The only difference between past and present..." started Robert.

"...is semantics." finished his sister.

"Lives, lived will live."

"Dies, died will die."

"If we could perceive time as it truly was..."

"What reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?"

"Like us all, Lady Comstock exists ACROSS time..."

"She is both alive and dead."

"She perceives being both."

"She finds this condition...disagreeable."

"Perception without comprehension..."

"...is a dangerous combination."

Reece looked between the two as they kept speaking while digging the graves. "Enough of the riddles, what are you two getting at?" he asked not wanting to deal with their riddles after what had just happened.

"Reece, Look!" Elizabeth said pulling on his jackets sleeve. She pointed at the ground where Lady Comstock had last stood. In the dirt, leading away from the burial site were glowing footprints. Wisps of energy coming off of them making it hard not to take notice.

"She goes to unfinish business." said Rosalind. Making the duo look back at them, lightning flashed overhead illuminating the headstones of the graves they were digging. "Lutece" look back at them from each stone.

They were digging their own graves.

"Come on, dead or alive, she's the only one that can get us into Comstock House." Reece said leading Elizabeth out of the cemetary. Keeping an eye on her as her strength returned slowly but surely after her ordeal.

They passed through the main building toward the exit and found the twins standing in the doorway waiting for them. "It's a shame you have need of her to enter Comstock House." said Robert casually.

"Frankly, she doesn't seem all that cooperative." added Rosalind.

"There is a way to bring her to reason." said the brother.

"Three truths you must discover first." said the sister.

"Truths which, in this world, Comstock has destroyed."

"If only one of you had the power to alter time and space."

"That would be a blessing, wouldn't it?"

Lightning flashed and they vanished. Their words still ringing in the teens' ears as they stood still.

"What do you think they meant? About the 'three truths'?" Elizabeth asked.

Her companion looked down at the ground and saw the footprints left behind by Lady Comstock lead straight out of the cemetary and out into the road leading into the market district. "Only one way to find out." he said as they began to follow the trail.