Eidolon Festival

Aaron opened the door to Christian’s lab while knocking on it, expecting to see the tech guru sitting behind his giant computer analyzing data or messing around with his test beakers on the table behind the monitor that took up much of his desk. Instead, the other Guardian was in the back, in a small space he used to install the IACs, looking at something through the large magnifying glass he used to see into a person’s eye while he was installing the miniscule computer chip. Despite the knock, Christian didn’t look up, so Aaron waited a second before entering, saying his name quietly at first so as not to scare him and potentially make him ruin whatever he was working on. When that didn’t work, he tried the IAC, which was ignored. “Christian?” he finally shouted, standing about two feet away from the man in the lab coat.

Christian jumped, knocking the magnifying glass with the small instrument he’d been holding, dropping whatever he&