That’s when she noticed the hourglass was gone, and he was sitting in its place. “It was you all along.” Holland remembered the intense bolt of déjà vu she’d felt when she’d first met him, and how he’d been the one who had handed her the package she’d mistakenly thought was from the Professor. But the package had never been sent in the mail. It had always been part of him, or maybe he was part of the package. Holland was a little fuzzy on how it all worked, but she was fairly certain there had never been a Mr. Vargas. Mr. Vargas had always been the Alchemical Heart. “Bingo!” it said
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