Labyrinths

[HuggieSunrise]

Previously

Haog aka Jim McKenna Stood on an suspended bridge way leading into what looked like a mirror frame. It was a new construction within Altair. Ont he alien side where humanoids were not welcome it was practice to have an escort.

Harbinger or Suum which was the humanoid Harbinger. Red skin, jet black.. what you could say was hair and eyes that were little more then pits where his perceptions flowed. It was an immense being but different then what you'd think Harbinger was.

The builder caste the dreamers were the engineers of the hive one appeared at the opposite end and began to manipulate the mirror like aperture. its arms reached out as tones and sounds emanated within the entire chamber, Haog looked off the bridge to see that lights playing off of an invisible surface... they were inside of either a field of hallow crystal of some sort.

Suum "spoke" warning. "Dont go too far seraphim, you cant fly here."

Hoag pulled back looking at the giant red guy. "Your saying I could anywhere else?"

His escort huffed... psychicly? "The shadow lands have many wonders. you may."

The dreamer was not as tall as Suum but its power felt bigger then him.. Hybrids like Suum and the elder casts.. wanderers, dreamers, etc always had a presence like the whole hive of minds were behind them. Though the hybrids never lack being personable... people can interact with a hybrid easier then a older form of the nomads. Whom are much more abrasive with "lesser" species.

Energy was now flowing around the mirror frame. A surface was forming like a pool of mercury.

Hoag suddenly had.. second thoughts. The old man in him was thinking hell go through all this and appear as his old man self trip on a rock and break his neck. Suum never spoke of the shadow lands but satrina said it was a vast alien wilderness.

"The vision of the lands of light within the shadowlands are almost hospitable to beings such as us... a near human would have great difficulty if one even made it there... it isnt not an illusion it is not a trick this is a place that the light carve out of a diemension were nothing should exist.. it is imperfect... scary, and above all deadly."

She had a way of hiding truth... she wasent hiding it then.

"What is it like." Said.. more as an order then a.. question. Suum regarded the little man next to him.

"Imagine part of you is a branch of something so huge and eternal that few things surprise you, your experience is many lessons and suddenly you enter a cave of wonder.. awe.. and find the other-side to be beautiful.. brilliant.. and mortally frightening..." Suum imparted.

"I see.. Do you miss it?" Haog asked.

"I dream of it. I yearn for it. Yet there is fear. " Suum said.

Fear.. from harbinger. ... great.

"So I should take something to defend myself?" Haog asked

Suum "smiled" at him.

There was the sound of thunder.. electricity was in the air the mercurial surface was now like an hourglass tunneling outward reaching toward Haog.

Inside there was a blue light.. errily bleeding through to this world this diemension. The light was cool.. and warm at the same time.. it seemed to call to him.

The dreamer make noises and gestures.. Suum nodded.

"Haog. its time.. Three Winds is coming." Suum implored.

Hoag didn't think walking towards the looking glass the "focus" of the other world was more vivid he felt natural..gravity an attraction.. he felt as if he "slipped" but was being carried in.. as he went in he saw Thomas's flowing white cloak possibly as he was entering Thomas was exiting.

For a moment he panicked feeling his emphatic senses his ears and eyes were assaulted with extremes of cold and heat..

Then suddenly silence. A single voice..

"Jim.. Forgive me."

Something was wrong.

Terribly wrong.. The forces where all wrong he wasent going far enough something was trying to pull him back..

Haog was suspended above a void... a gate way visible from where he came.. he saw Thomas well his back and the Dreamer laboring like it was attempting to reverse this process.

"No let me go im almost there!" Haog yelled no idea if they could hear him.

Thomas raised a hand and the dreamers head went in an odd direction violently.. Thomas was suddenly solid and the pull on Haog re asserted itself. Flying quickly instantly over what looked like oceans of.. nothing.. silvery water like masses.. ...

Then sudden falling..

He knew this sensation.. he was definitely falling like an escape pod falls and the only thing you had to guarantee your going to make it was the fact the chair you where strapped in to was rated to survive terminal velocity impacts. ... 5 times out of 10.