The difference in the speed of time had to be pointed out to us, too, though at least I had something of an idea that it was a possibility. Since you had no points of contact it makes complete sense you wouldn't have known, and we didn't suspect it since none of us have experienced a Fissure opening where we already were.

[Phi isn't especially rattled; it's been extremely important for her to stay calm in the past, and most of the times she didn't, well...]

As far as I know, ours is the only group of people active outside of this one. Like Ardyn said, we've been using technology developed by the androids stationed at Keystone to suppress the influence of active Fissures and in the process investigate why they might have appeared and whether there's a more permanent way to deal with them.