James’ vision blurred. When he reappeared, he was back in the ordinary-looking courtyard. The place was completely empty.

James scanned his surroundings and walked toward a stone chair of a gazebo nearby. As he sat on the chair, he recalled what he had experienced.

He knew he had not been hallucinating. After entering the courtyard, a powerful figure had been talking to him from countless epochs away. Or perhaps this was a message left behind by the Ancestral Talisman Master, which anyone woul