Happy Halloween, folks; please r&r, and tell me if I should go any further with this...

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It came from darkness, through darkness, and into darkness. A single drop of liquid; a paradox in its perfection, an anachronism in its order. The latter of the two met its death with the stone flooring, but the former lingered, traveling slowly along the slanted surface.

A linguist sat in a bitter mood, his back against the wall and his body sprawled out before him. He was pondering. He had been doing so for a long time; so long, in fact, that his thoughts were now slow in coming. His mind fought against the gathering darkness. Entropy. Sanity he had hoarded, so jealously, for so long, was gently melting into a chaos. So much had left him, he was almost an empty shell. But something was coming. Something that always came after so many hours, alone, in the dark.

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Jack strode down the ramp as the wormhole vanished behind him, battle ringing in his ears. "Permission to return to P3X-545, Sir."

"Just a minute, Colonel, I think you need to hear something first." General Hammond looked up as Carter rushed into the embarkation room, a clipboard in hand and an anxious expression on her face.

"Sir, our scans have picked up the energy signatures of multiple time dilation devices."

". . . not good?"

"No. According the schematics provided by the Asgaard, the rebels have a series of catacombs deep underground. They have managed to speed up time within the catacombs, while the rest of the base remains unaffected. They've used a complex form of an ionic carbon-based bond I've never seen before to shield their-"

"Carter! Cut to it." Jack snapped.

"Sir, we have no way of knowing how long Daniel's been down there. To him, almost a month could have passed."

"Start dialing the gate."

"Hold it, Colonel." General Hammond said strongly.

"General?" Jack implored. Carter answered his question.

"Sir, those rebels aren't just any ordinary group. Their Asgaard."

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