Gate of Memoirs/Untimely Arrival

It seems that you were late to the party. A little more than late.
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Music: "Strike! Break!"	Music: "Strike! Break!"
 	
*Grievesnare: GGrrrssstt....Bzzztt....
*The last Grievesnare falls apart, its crucial joints melted by the sheer heat of the stranger's flames.
*You take a blessed moment to finally catch your breath, but just as you do, the stranger hovers into your view again—
 	
*And you recoil from the sheer familiarity of that face. 
*The very idea that something close to concern could appear on such a face confounds you.
Portrait 	Dialogue
 	
*A face whose smile showed only wickedness and malice before.
*A face you wouldn't forget, even as you watched him swallowed by Kranus's Void...
 	
*Is he really...Gazia?
Music: "Ghost"	Music: "Ghost"
 	
*???: Are you all right?
*???: Wait, that was insensitive. You did fall out of the sky.
 	
*You can't help but gape at him. This dissonance is almost too much for you.
 	
*???: Maybe we can start with an introduction, if your braincase isn't so rattled.
*???: ...? Pleasure.
*Azius: I am Azius. Inventor, tinkerer, handsome devil...
 	
*He grins when you start to splutter.
*Azius: Yes, yes, save some of your awe for later. *Clearly* this is neither the time nor the place.
 	
*Azius: They'll be onto us soon enough, so we should get moving.
 	
*Azius points at a blinking indicator on one of the downed Grievesnares.
 	
*Azius: Your...unfortunate landing has given away my position, I'm afraid.
*Azius: I'm something of a...hmm. "Renegade," you might say.
 	
*You narrow your eyes and ask what he's done this time.
 	
*Azius: What? "This time?" I don't know what you're...
 	
*Azius listens carefully as you explain the events from your perspective, though you elected to omit the existence of Gazia for now.
*If the Grievesnares are the same here as they were in Gazia's Iron Army in the other Athensphere...
*Why were they turning against their "creator" here?
 	
*Azius: ... ...
 	
*Azius: I see. Well, you've just jolted my memory.
*Azius: I just didn't expect you to arrive...two years later.
 	
*Okay, now you are definitely losing it.
*That portal must have done more than upend your sense of sanity.
*He was *expecting* you?
 	
*Azius: Look, I'll explain later when we're not in such a precarious situati—
 	
*Grievesnare: GGRRZZZTT!!
*Grievesnare: [ Target Detected! ]
 	
*Azius: Wonderful.