Jason didn't answer at first, instead, he just let that question hang in the air. When he felt that he could stall no longer, he finally decided to tell the truth to her, considering she seemed somewhat nicer to him.
"They were orders..." Jason said plainly, not wanting to go into further detail, but knowing that Rachel would want to know everything, "Given by our Leader. We were told to destroy the city, or throw it into chaos so that something could happen. At first, I didn't have any idea what they were planning to do... but luckily I met up with Amaranth, who is unfortunately running the show now, and he told me everything I needed to know."
He gripped his side tightly, blood seeping out through his hands with the exertion that he was taking for his weakened body to climb up through the mountains. They were now well outside of the city, with only a few houses left before they were in the middle of nowhere.
"Amaranth discovered, that the event my Leader was speaking of... was the day that my ancestor would be able to come into our time period. We were sent to make sure nobody could send military reinforcements to kill my ancestor... but I swear we had no idea that this is what they intended on us to do. We were told to go back home after we were done, but we came back... and I intend on sending my ancestor back to his own time. Curtis knew about it this entire time, but he never mentioned it before." Jason said, gripping his side so tightly that blood sprayed out of his wound and Jason nearly fell to his knees.
