User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20170424001125/@comment-28358106-20170424233630

"I'm afraid not. Not unless you can translate an ancient language for which I have no phonetic reference," he says, not picking up his new drink. "You know, Marcus, I've spent a lot of time studying what happened with Alcamarie and the Crucible, studying the parallels between this world and the false one she created. Everything in that alternative world was somehow an inferior copy of this world, the real one.  She got all of her ideas from my memories of this place.  I've been able to track every single instance of parallel happenings between the two timestreams, all except for Regina's origin.  I just...I just all of a sudden hit a brick wall.  I have no references, no material, nothing."

He runs his fingers through his hair, suddenly looking very tired. "And now that Regina has had to run off of two cores, leaving Lucida short, I feel helpless. I..."

He looks over to Marcus, debating whether or not to say something. At last, he speaks.

"Marcus, can I trust something to you? Do you promise not to repeat to Sam what I tell you?"