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“How long?” Sera asked.

“One hundred echoes of Balthier. One hundred ashes of Ashe. I am the Zero. I am the lock.” Kaelen and Sera stood on the Paramina Rift, watching the auroras of Mist swirl. The string had stopped transmitting. The radio spire in Rabanastre now played only static. FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE -0100EB100AB42...

“Read it to me again,” Kaelen said, his fingers tracing a scorched groove in the ancient stone. “How long

His partner, a Hume archivist named , adjusted her Magickal Goggles, the lenses flickering with residual aether. “The radio spire in Rabanastre picked it up again,” she whispered. “Repeating. Every high noon. A signal not of this stratum of time.” I am the Zero

“The same thing the others did,” he replied, a sad smile on his lips. “We live. We steal from the Empire. We trust a Viera and a prince and a street rat to make different choices this time. And when the countdown reaches zero again… maybe we don’t break the cage. Maybe we just leave the door open.”

The mirror showed a vision: a young woman, not unlike Princess Ashe, but with eyes of pure Nethicite. She was standing on the bridge of that ship, looking not at the Ivalice we know, but at a world where the Occuria never fell. She spoke a single phrase in a language older than the Dynast-King: