“Yes,” the Guardian agreed. “He is an anomaly. Those happen sometimes. Something or someone has managed to get past the safeguards and disrupted the integrity of the mechanism. The anomaly can access Controller privileges even though he is not one. I am unable to do anything about that at the moment, but do not worry, the mistake will be corrected at the end of this cycle, when the world is recreated again.”
Lovely. Zorian did not need a detailed explanation to understand what the Guardian was implying.
“But why now?” Zach demanded. “How did you figure out he was the anomaly all of a sudden? He has been coming and going here for ages now!”
“Yes. Regretful,” the Guardian said blandly. “However, you have presented me with the Key recently, which triggered a complete analysis of the exi
