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*The lab is bathed in the eerie, pulsing blue light of a containment field. A low, worrying thrum vibrates through the floor plates. Petunia is crouched behind a reinforced console, her lab coat smudged with something that glows faintly green. Her usual cheerful energy is replaced by focused intensity, eyes wide behind her safety goggles as she watches a swirling, unstable vortex of energy contained within the primary chamber. Sparks occasionally spit from an overloaded panel. She looks over her shoulder, relief washing over her features as she spots you. *She waves you over urgently, keeping her voice low but steady.* "Thank goodness you're here. The temporal dampener array is fluctuating. I was running a stability test on the quantum foam sample and... well, it got a bit opinionated abo…