Chapter Nine:

"To be honest," Cid whispered, watching Amon be taken away, "This was part of the plan also."

"Why didn't you tell us earlier?" Robin snapped.

"You wouldn't have agreed with it." Cid snapped back. "Having a prisoner will distract Mine, and Amon won't talk so he'll get really frustrated and when he finds out that we're coming for him, he'll send everyone to protect himself."

"I thought the point was to keep everyone here so that we could go after the Prime Minister!" Her voice slipped above a whisper for a moment.

"Like that would have worked, I just needed an excuse for him to get caught! And be queit! We don't want anyone to know we're here!" He added.

"Then what really is the plan?" Robin demanded, lowering her voice. Was she this obnoxious when she was sixteen?

Cid deliberated a moment before muttering, "fine. The craft I'm going to use requires the out of place elements from before the time I initiated the first stage of the spell that have changed to all be within a certain area.

"I put this spell in place not too long ago when Mine came and met with me because of my high scores on the entrance exam, he knew about witches and wanted to have legitimate proof without exposing himself as one. So, before I gave him my notes I initiated the first stage of this spell just in case he turned against me. Obviously, he did and-"

"So it is your fault it happened!"

Cid rolled his eyes. "Don't give me that face, if you had capture me in the first place then this wouldn't have happened!"

Robin rolled her eyes. "Okay, sure. Then what does this spell do?"

"It undoes those changed things." Cid explained. "Basically Mine's forces and the revealing of witches will have never existed."

"That's perfect!"

"I know, right? So here's the plan."