«—I come from the past— said Emily in a secure voice— And I'm a Magician, that means I can use magic at my will—though everything has limits, of course. I was send here by my superiors to warn you about the immense danger that's coming to all of us, the Journey. It's something we've been fearing since the very Magicians beginning.

But I see you look confused, I guess you don't know what I'm talking about... See, the Journey is an illness, a very dangerous one. But it's not a normal illness— it's a Magical illness, therefore it's caused by other Magicians. I know it doesn't sound frightening, but believe me, it is. Only a few Magicians are capable to cause it, because it requires a very powerful and ancient spell that no everyone has access to— and as you can imagine, no good people wishes to use it. 

It consist in eternal silence. The Mage afected is not capable of thinking anything about magic anymore, he or she might even think is a normal person, but this eventually kills Magicians, becuse a Mage who don't use magic acumulates so much power inside that ends exploding. Literally exploding. 

We had an overcoming amount of ill people the last two years, and a month before today our Profet recieved from the Moon a profecy saying that my still unborn child would be our saviour, but that I needed to contact him urgently because the future was very different to what we knew. Then, he checked the Stars to know why and we finded out that you were not raised by me, but by a regular human! And that was a disaster! You never learned the ancient art of Magic, you never awakened the power that's inside you, and we didn't know why. The only reason that came to our minds was that you became an orphan as a baby, but that means...— and at this point, she made a few seconds of silence. The end of that phrase was obvious: if Oliver became an orphan as a baby, that could only ment she was dead in the present, and that she probably died a few years later than the age she had right now.

—And that's why I'm here. I'm here to find out what happened. I'm here to know what do you know and what do you need to know... But mostly, I'm here to teach you. If I'm your mother, which I'm not sure, after all profecies can be wrong sometimes, that means we have the same Magic Type, so I can show you a few things. 

You're our biggest hope, Oliver. We need you. The whole Magicians World needs you. If you don't eradicate the Journey forever, we will be soon extint and no more than just a memory, and if that happens, the balance of the earth could be broken and the human race could suffer the consecuences too.

But I have no time to explain the details of the story, my capacity to time-travel has its limits, and I can't stay forever. So, first things first. Tell me, how much do you know about Magic?»