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Xiaolian and Laura stopped abruptly as they both heard their names being called, but the voice wasn't a familiar one. Soon enough they were standing in front of Molly and the circle etched in the ground with her in it's middle.

"Well that's pretty obviously our problem." Xiaolian commented hands on her hips as she tilted her head trying to wrap her mind around this thing scrawled in the dirt. "It's a cuneiform circle Lieutenant... uncommon.. but some still use them." Laura said equally confused as to what it was doing there. She knew the mechanics of magic forwards and backwards, upside down and inside out, but some things were simply beyond her power to accomplish.

"Wait.. who are you and how do you know who we are?" Xiaolian asked squinting at the girl standing inside the circle. She didn't need glasses, but it might be a good idea to get her eyes checked after this because the girl looked an awful lot like Molly. "Uhm... Xiaolian.." Laura said pointing to the items at the edge of the circle. "In a minute Laura." The older officer said waving the other woman off thinking it would just be another whining excuse about one thing or the other.