[@Arista]

Okay. Yay for posts! Don't say I didn't warn you about length. I'm going to break it up. As a quick prediction, would you be okay with, say, three loner posts before I get her to a place where they could potentially run into each other?

Since Thea remembers diddly squat in the story's present, and because I like leaving questions to be answered (plus, she's going to have to remember stuff sometime, so I'd just probably end up rewriting some of it in some form, anyway), I'm starting maybe a few hours--a day at most--before their potential reuniting. But please, feel free to base your next start whenever, so long as it ultimately ends up with both our characters at the same day and time.

By the way, my OCD loves that the time skip begins on the top of the second page. :lol Oh, and would you mind if I were to add that Thea's presence sometimes cancels out the effects of scientific machinery? Realized I have more on the magic side of things on her profile than the science side.