User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20170424001125/@comment-28358106-20170425014924

"No," Thomas sighs. "I talked to her about exploring temporal cascade fluxes unsupervised. I had to show her the singing broccoli for her to get the point.  She definitely got the point.  Eeeuurrgh..." he shudders.

"No, it's Lucida. She was born with two cores, one to control her mental and bodily functions and one to control her magic harnessing abilities.  When Regina was...in danger, it was Lu who suggested using her secondary core to bond with her mother's, since they both shared an energy signature.  I had to bond it to Regina's existing core using a type of morphing energy signature so her body wouldn't reject it, and it worked.  The problem is..."

He leans forward, looking at the floor, hs hands clasped together as his arms rest on his knees. His voice goes quiet. "Lucida's missing core, the one she gave to her mother, controlled how she accessed her runic memories. I hadn't taken into account that those runes acted as her real-time mnemonic controller.  It...with it missing, it..."

He pauses again. "Lucida is slowly losing her mental capacity."