Learning to Love Time Loops Without Going Insane

“Albert, we can’t work under these conditions, how is a capybara supposed to get anything done when the coffee isn’t even hot?!” A capybara with a blue tinge to its fur aggressively questioned Albert as he brought in the new diagrams for how to draw their runic cracks.

“Look, Bill, I understand, but sometimes we have to work with what we have. There just aren’t currently enough of us to do all the things we usually do, so right now we stick with the priority missions.” Albert tried to calm his long time friend.

“I think I liked this all better before the humans.” Bill took a drink of his cold coffee.

“No you don’t, they invented all your favorite candy.” Albert handed Bill a dark chocolate bar. “Don’t tell anyone I saved this for you, just keep your eyes on the mission. Once we get this done Ralth promised our lives will get very interesting very fast.”

“Okay, okay, I didn’t mean it anyway. I’m just tired. Trying to convert the energy waves of our mana well directly into our dimensional hops isn’t something I thought we would ever need to do.”

“Same, but it’s working, you figured out the language of magic. You’re talking directly to the universe, and it’s responding to help us.”