SOLO III
Demon World
Part 028
Gail is floating among the stars. Brilliant,
calm, and steady. She tries to hold your hand, but it passes
through like you aren't really there. She holds her own hand in
front of her face. Stars are visible through it. She turns
her hand over to look at the back side.
"Just think of Uncle, and you will be next to
him." Says Ada.
"This is astral." Says Gail. "I read
that nothing can harm you here except a few types of spells."
"Right." Says Ada. She turns to
you. "Let's go."
You think of Gail's body sitting back on the carpet
in your room. Instantly you are there. A moment later Gail
and Ada join you, each floating looking down on their own sleeping
body.
"This is your body Gail. This is where you
return to wake yourself up." You say. She looks at her body
for a moment then to you. She nods.
You think of the dwarven emperor and instantly you
are standing before him. You are astral and he is unaware of your
arrival. But the six old dwarves with him see you. They too
are astral. Gail and Ada show up a moment later.
The emperor is standing in a room of mithril
pillars. Behind him is a huge half dome of a window that looks
out on the sea floor and up at the bottom of waves. There are two
steering wheels behind the dwarf. Wooden, of the wagon wheel
style, with hand pegs around the circumferance of each.
The six old dwarves have long white beards and white
hair. The beards flow down over black cloaks made of stars.
Their faces are simi-translucent and you can see the steering deck
through them, but the cloaks are solid black with just the stars.
They have the cloaks pulled completely around them so they look like
pillars of stars with dwarf heads on top.
"We know you now." Says the oldest one.
And you can feel them there in an immediate and personal sense.
Even in there astral cloaks there is a stong feeling that these are the
emperors personal body guard, and that you could find them again with a
thought. As could they you. Each of the six are making
ready to cast spells on you.
Gail imediately dissappears. Reflexively you
think of her and you appear on a white sandy beach between palms and
the ocean. Ada is already there.
"We can't go back to our bodies." Gail
says. "They can find us now, even in the lab." And at that
moment the six old dwarves show up. The blackness of their stary
cloaks contrasting to the beach and untouched by it.
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