so, it's like this, I already told a few people i'm using this fic to build my style, but I will leave that here so anyone can know that.
Anyways, this chapter actually took longe because it's not my first attempt(heck, it's the third or fourth, can't remember which one), the original ones ran into a problem. the library was suposed to be at HQ, that's suposed to be somewhere in the dimensional space... no one could 'go' to him, so that's what we get, I usually change canon to my whims but not this time(no idea WHY I didn't want to change it), if I'm wrong about that however, do tell me so I can beat myself -_-"
... I mean it...


1 day. 3 hours. 57 minutes. Slowly, I could feel my consciousness coming back from the void. It was strangely enough to be a painful process, as if the darkness didn't want me to come back to myself.

1 day. 3 hours. 58 minutes. What was that? Why was I counting the time, how did I even manage to count while unconscious?

1 day. 3 hours. 59 minutes. Idly I stretched my conscience to the part of my mind that was on something similar to automatic mode, just keeping track of time. It seems my multitasking ability has reached a new level since I could keep two separate parts my mind, one awake and another asleep…

1 day. 19 hours. 37 minutes. What the? The time changed… did I blackout? That's …

2 days. 1 hour. 3 minutes. …Strange… What… I better stop with that... Again I start to stretch my mind, wrestling against the darkness that kept me in the line between conscious and unconscious.

2 days. 1 hour. 4 minutes. I slowly start to regain my bearings, now my mind finally start working like it should, I can feel my body floating somewhere in the library, my linker core being slowly drained by the system I created, and the tingling feeling of my body starting to wake up.

2 days. 1 hour. 5 minutes. Finally I manage to open my eyes, trying to get a bearing of where exactly I am in the library. And I see nothing.

2 days. 1 hour. 6 minutes. Darkness, no, not exactly a dark place, my eyes just seem to not be working, what exactly was I doing?

2 days. 1 hour. 7 minutes. I must have reached my limits… Even as I reach such a conclusion my mind is strangely calm, analyzing the situation, the little information, slowly making progress…

2 days. 1 hour. 8 minutes. Now what should I do, maybe I shouldn't have given Arf those three days of rest, but it was such a rare chance for her to be with Fate that I really didn't want her to be locked here.

2 days. 1 hour. 9 minutes. I decide to contact someone. Even if I'm at my limit I was pretty sure I could still use short-range telepathy.

2 days. 1 hour. 10 minutes. Again, I stretch my mind, like a muscle my conscious reach the part of me that's marking time, only to absorb it. I would need most of my power to send a one-time only distress signal.

I mentally chuckle as I remember that it was such a magic that called Nanoha to me, all those years ago. I wonder if she would come back again…

What an unrealistic and wishful thought. I, more than anyone, know it is impossible, for the infinite library is located at the TSAB HQ, in the middle of the dimensional sea, and Nanoha hates this place, so there's no reason for her to come here.

Yes… No reason at all.

I clear my head of these thoughts. Dwelling in them won't help, and by the minute my linker core is being slowly drained away by the system. If I don't send the distress signal now, I probably won't be able to do it later.

So, I slowly draw from my abused linker core, just enough power to reach someone inside the library, hoping that someone actually hears it. Most librarians aren't exactly used to telepathic contact after all.

"Help… Can someone hear me? Help…"

I could probably have chosen better words, or been more specific, but even as I send the message, I can barely keep awake from the strains. That's the better I can do at the moment. I just hope that's enough.

Surely… Someone must have… heard it… right…?

"Gah!"― I wake up with a jerk, my eyes wide open even if my vision is not yet restored, and pain running through my whole body, somewhere in my mind I understand this pain is my linker core starting to collapse, and the link to the system being broken.

Still, in the middle of it all I wonder if someone heard me… Almost mockingly, another side of my mind answers: 3 days. 11 hours. 29 minutes.


Short as it is, I hope you liked it.

On a side note... I like Yuuno, but there's no other way I could see this going ^^"