"Can I ask what happens when you get out of balance? What the magic takes from you while you give?" The more they talked, and the more Lissa spoke of her magic the more Claudia wanted to know. In some ways the struggle she spoke of reminded Claudia strongly of what it meant to be a Warehouse agent. Weighing the benefits of using artifacts against the risks. There was no easy answers or strict guidelines. It was just something you had to figure out as you went along. Which left a pretty wide margin of error.
She scratched her head for a minute. "That's a good question. I'm not sure the Warehouse is where I left it. See, the thing is - there have been Warehouses since Alexander the Great. He built the first one to hold all his swag from all his conquering. Anyway, they stay in one place only for so long. Once a civilization or a country starts to lose power or another country starts to rise the Warehouse pretty much closes up shop and starts over somewhere else. Warehouse 12 was in London before it came here just as the US was starting to become a real world power. So I don't know yet if it's even still here. Tony and I have talked about trying to make a trip. At the very least he can do a fly by and see if it's still standing." There just hadn't been any time with the leviathans looming over them 24/7.
"And even if it is, a lot of the artifacts don't play well with others. Like there are these two statues: one of Zeus and the other of Hera and they're really beautiful marble statues...that hate each other. They can't be within miles of one another or else the Zeus statue throws lightning bolts. Actual fry your butt lightning. We finally had to put her in one corner of the Warehouse and him in a garden all the way in town." She smiled a little at the memory.
"But I think I would know if it was gone. I - can't explain it I just think I would." Claudia then said something that surprised her. Something that had been percolating in the back of her mind since the night Dick Roman died. "An artifact was born on Friday. Somehow in the fighting...I don't even know what it is or who it belongs to...but I think that's what happened."