When I woke up, I was alone on the sofa. Bolting upright, my heart calmed at the sight of white hair plunking on piano keys. He turned to me. Gold eyes. Nea.

"Morning sleepyhead"

"Hnn."

"How do you feel?"

"A'ight I guess. How's Moyashi?"

"Panicking" At that I stared at the Noah who looked incredibly awkward forced into this situation.

"Why?"

"He thinks he may have made your problem worse - and he's worried he hurt you" I softened my glare and sighed. That idiot.

"I'm not hurt. And I think it was a one-time thing. If it's not, we'll deal with it" Nea nodded and smiled.

"I know" and closed his eyes.

"We?" Allen's soft voice came through as his eyes opened silver. I smiled at him,

"Yeah. We. That okay with you?" I asked. Allen nodded passionately, tears shining. I opened my arms,

"Get here you idiot" and he carefully wrapped his arms around me.

"So, we're good?"

"We're good"

Jonny and Link chose that moment to enter the room.

"So, we've worked out that we've only been on this Ark two days." We both stared at the blonde. Nea took control and hummed,

"I slowed down the time progression within the Ark to try and allow you guys time to sort yourselves out." Gold eyes froze,

"I forgot to tell you didn't I" Nea moved over to the piano and pressed a few keys. Suddenly a clock seemed to hover above the tower displayed on the screen.

"It's called Void Control. I hadn't explained it to Allen yet as I didn't want to overload him. But you can speed it up, slow it down or have it run in tandem to reality. The Ark resides in a vacuum of time and space. It's why when the Ark was destroyed, it, and all of you, could be called back into existence as, in a sense, it doesn't quite exist." I sat in silence trying to wrap my head around everything we had been told and shivered. Oh yeah, I was draped in a throw and nothing else, no wonder I was cold. Nea seemed to notice this and shucked off his jacket, handing it to me. I accepted it and draped it over my shoulders. As I did this, Link seemed to acknowledge my state of undress and looked away, awkward.

Jonny, however, was fascinated by what Nea had said.

"So, we could stop time altogether?" Nea chuckled,

"Not if we wanted to live"

"What do you mean?"

"If I stopped the time, we would all freeze with it, including our hearts and brains which would probably kill us. Though wonder boy may survive, it's not good to risk it." he explained. Jonny paled.

"Let's avoid that then" we all agreed.

"Wait, why am I wonder boy?" I suddenly clicked that he meant me. Nea grinned and said nothing but paused suddenly and whirled round to look at Link and Jonny.

"How did you know about the timeline? Did you go outside?" Nea accused, Link glared back,

"How would we? You've got this place shut up like a prison" he shot back, and Jonny looked between the two men and stuttered out,

"We figured out how to view the outside from the main tower." he explained. Nea paused and his face relaxed into that of mild embarrassment.

"Oh yeah, I forgot you could do that. My bad" Link rolled his eyes and Jonny breathed out in relief that a conflict had been avoided. I remembered my clothing situation once more and I was suddenly aware of the people in the room.

"Right now, that's been sorted, get out. I want to get changed"

"Changed-oh" Jonny went red and ran out of the room, an uncomfortable Link following him. Nea smirked at me and when I glared at him, he simply switched back to Allen.

"Damn coward" I muttered as Allen blinked, perplexed.

"Help me with these" I told him as I stepped off the sofa, letting the jacket and blanket drop. He blushed but nodded, finding my trousers and passing them to me for me to change into. With the Moyashi's help, I was dressed in no time. He looked almost disappointed - I smirked a little at that.

"What?"

"Nothing" he squinted at me but shrugged and headed out - probably to find food knowing him. At the thought of food, my stomach growled, and I followed him out of the room. I almost had Moyashi's appetite nowadays - apparently this was also normal for my 'condition'. And somehow my favourite food swapped from soba (which I still loved) to meat loaf which I suddenly acquired a taste for recently after Link started making it for us. The man was annoying, but he could cook well - something we were all grateful for.