"Hinoka has broken through to another Tale-and she's disrupting the natural events," the woman says, as the spell compels more truth than she perhaps wanted to say.

It is at this point that those of you besides Hinoka can start to see the portal. It's blurry at first, but steadily comes into relief, with Hinoka being the first to see a small squadron of soldiers, perhaps a half-dozen, dressed in yellow-banded splint mail and wielding spears.

The woman sees them as well. "Please-let me through to talk to the others of the Order, and I'll try to explain. Okay?"