Even the air around me was as still as in a crypt.The stars above slowly faded as a blood-red sun rose in the sky on the horizon. I saw that I was ins...de a glass bubble that surrounded the space I was in.Ethereal shapes began to materialize around me. Humanoid but taller than men. Shaped like men, however, without mouths or ears. The rest was not clear to me as they were below my line of sight due to the way I was lying on the table.'Don't be afraid; we mean you no harm.'"Who are you? Where am. " Alright," Williams nodded, turning to Reynolds while pointing at Zeke, "get out the containment container shell. I don't want anyone touching that." Hope it doesn't spill whatever pissing shit's on it," Reynolds muttered underneath his breath, walking over while taking out a special metallic sealed, black bag before Zeke dished out some prongs. With slow, careful hands they managed to drop the boot into the back and seal it, compressing some of the air out of it for easier travel packaging.. As she turned away I noticed she was all in green. Not only did she have a pixie face, she was dressed as a pixie. Those legs in green tights with a short green skirt were awesome. Then I heard the tell-tale sounds of the safety valves hissing, and had to turn away to put on the injector before the loco blew off. As I opened the water valve, cracked then fully opened the steam valve, trimmed the water till the injector was singing, and checked the overflow, I was running through what had. " Then we will need to answer a crucial question," said Tarras. "What are we fighting for?"Rennis stared, his eyes wide.Tarras nodded in satisfaction. "So I am not the only one to have asked that question. A small comfort, I suppose. Who was it? Uridon, perhaps? Though a bit surprising, coming from a merchant." It was Q'garra, the Mage Guildmaster," said Rennis in a hollow voice.Tarras' eyebrows rose. "Really? Then he is indeed the most forward-thinking Guildmaster the Mages have had in a long.