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JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO
Separated only by a plane of existence, in the real world on
Vivia, Viviana still had the crew working overtime trying to revive
Tital and Bardala. It was fortunate that when Tital and Bardala
were placed on the stone floor that Bardala’s arm happened to
be touching Tital’s bare side. Maybe it was by accident, or maybe
it was by design of the Great Feathered Dragon, Kukulcán. No
one would ever know for sure, Viviana was just glad it happened
that way. Kuó was standing back out of the way of the others,
but wanted to help in any way he could to save Tital and Bardala.
He asked Viviana, “What can I do to help you?” The Fossil
watch on Jonathan’s wrist would later show that they had been
working on the pair for twenty-nine long minutes. He would
later think of the relationship with the lucky Maya numbers,
seven, nine, and thirteen when he pushed the stopwatch
function on his watch to stop the time and record it.
Viviana briefly stopped pushing on Bardala’s chest just long
enough to say, “You can go and check on their eyes for me. See if
they constrict when you shine a light in them. Stay out of our
way, go up to Tital’s head and let me know what you see.”
Kuó moved around from Tital’s feet to his head, he started to
kneel down, but in doing so dropped the Staff of Power that he
had been carrying. You would have thought he dropped it off a
mountain for all the noise it created when it hit the stone floor
next to Tital’s bare arm.
“KKKRRRAAACCCKKK!” It sounded more like a shotgun going
off Jonathan would later tell everyone. The whole crew including
Moka and Eegh were so surprised that instantly they all jumped
back from their work leaving none of the crew touching either
Bardala or Tital. It took only a fraction of a second when the
crew was clear for the staff to bounce, and have the lapis lazuli