I was staring. Obvious as hell, looking right at her feet. She was dipping her soles and wiggling her toes. I had a zipper busting hard on when all of...a sudden I pan left and see the underling with Fred Flintstone feet, Remmy and this other person I barely knew. They totally saw me and then acted like they hadn't. Something was up.They came to "see what was on my screen." And ask me a favor. I was getting my ass kissed about the mediocre ad on my screen when the one I barely knew sat in my. I can help them to help themselves. So, I will give you something that will help you to overcome your enemies so that you can help others to do the same.”With these words the alien extended its arm towards me and opened its hand. In its palm it held a small oval stone that looked like a miniature replica of its craft. “Take it.” The creature said. “We call it a Moon Stone because it serves to illuminate the darkness. It will help you to see what your eyes can not see. With it you will be. My puzzlement was not relieved before Morpheus claimed me once again. I awoke much more aware and secure in the knowledge that I had rested for a period as my beard was nearly two fingers long. I was weak as I felt my belly, finding a long incision bisecting my belly top to bottom. I realized that I had been some surgeon's hand puppet and God's grace had brought me thru it. My hands before me seemed pale and bony. I would live the life of an invalid for the nonce. I slept once again but to. “What are you doing?”“Your earth elementals can’t stab through her scales,” he said. “But they can pierce through her softer flesh.”My eyes widened. I gripped my earth totem in my right hand, the solid kapok wood hot to my grip. It was on the verge of failing. So many earth elementals had been struck, their bodies disrupted, the feedback shooting into my totem.But it was still intact. It still focused my will.Chaun’s courages song swirled around me as I stroked my fingers across the straight.