Mr. Wednesday just came out from his hotel room while waving back at the extremely attractive lady on the bed. "It was acceptable," he said while tying his tie. Just as he is about to exit the hotel, two crows block his way and start 'talking' to Wednesday.
It's incomprehensible for others, yet Wednesday smiles after hearing what the crows have to say. He walks to the rose cake dessert shop and buys a bag of dessert Monika likes then starts walking towards the soldier's barracks.
A few years ago, Wednesday was already in Cadiarc, the time was direr than now, constant attack from the chaos forces mixed with the threat of unknown enemies was taking a great hit on this planet. Now the chaos has been driven back, but the threat of the unknown still exists. Wednesday was never a fighter, he in fact existed a long time ago. His body changes throughout history but eventually he still exists at some point. He's not physically immortal like the god-emperor of mankind. But surely, he is not easily perishable.
He enters the barracks as if no one sees him, then he quietly enters Monika's room seeing she was still asleep. He did not wake her up, instead, he put the bag of dessert next to the bed. After a few minutes Monika woke up because she smelled something amazing, then she saw Wednesday with a face full of surprise. Even Monika until this point never understood why she never felt repulsive about everything Wednesday has done to her.
While having eye contact with Wednesday, Monika constantly swayed her eyes to the bag. Wednesday just give out a chuckle and sign Monika to eat first before they talk. It's a sunny day, the sun shoots in from the window, enlightening Monika's hair bang. After eating, she feels satisfied, then she lies on the bed like a cat doing a sunbath.
"Thank you for the rose cake." She wipes her mouth very gently and elegantly. As if she's trying to retain her image for some reason. "What can i do for you today?"
"I am here to visit a friend. Really nothing more," he speaks with a calm voice, seems like this is not the first time he did something like this. "But I do have some questions for you if…. you wouldn't mind."
"Anything!" Monika is in her peak mood.
"Rumor says that you have a special ability." he pauses: "I would like to verify the truth."
She did not hesitate and pulled a short sword from thin air and made it disappear from her hand.
Wednesday nods and pulls a golden coin from thin air. Monika did not expect that the kind old man in front of her has a similar ability. He then tosses the coin to Monika:" keep it safe, it's a gift." he did not say more, while Monika was inspecting the coin, Wednesday already left her room.
He however did not leave the barracks; he went straight towards the room where Kira was located. The girl sees him enter, but she did not say a word. As if she's expecting the visit. Wednesday grabs a chair and sits beside Kira's bed:" You know why I am here?" he asks with a slightly intimidating tone.
Kira didn't say anything, or more like she's being bound by some unknown force. She couldn't not move or talk, the only thing she could do is just look at him and move her head.
"I am going to ask you some questions and you just need to answer it with yes or no." Wednesday moves the chair forward " I heard what you said during your imprisonment. Or let me quote it from you: "'Whatever god is out there, I beg you if one day I can get out of this hell hole. I will give everything to you.' is that right?" At this moment his eyes aren't filled with anything but cold harshness
Kira doesn't know what's going on, but one thing that's for sure is that something bad is about to happen. She nods her head because that's the only thing she can do at this moment.
Wednesday had a noticeable smirk on his face and whispers:" Are you ready to fulfill your promise to a god? I will not make it hard or anything like that. What will happen is very simple, from now on you work for me until let's say the day I don't want you to…." before he could finish Monika already has a dagger on her hand.
"Mr. Wednesday…" Monika's voice is filled with rage:" Stand up slowly and walk away from the bed."
"This must be a misunderstanding, Monika." Wednesday's voice is still calm.
"Shut up!" she said it while having the gaze of death to Wednesday:" I trusted you…. I thought you were a decent person, but at the end of the day it's all a lie, isn't it?... And I don't know what you did to me but even now, I still can't get mad at you... But I will not allow you to harm Kira." a bit of teardrop came out from her eyes.
"Ms. Terra, I am no evil being. I'm just simply fulfilling my bargain with this little girl…" Wednesday continues: " A bargain is a bargain. It needs to be fulfilled."
Monika moves while pointing the dagger to Wednesday and hides Kira behind her: Trazyn told me about the kinds like you, but I did not listen." She then takes out the coin Wednesday gave her and throws it at him: "You gods really can't just leave us alone, isn't it? I read about these things, a token or an artifact that will activate on your will."
Wednesday pulls back his look of innocence, instead, the air in the room is getting heavier and the cloud outside the window starts gathering:" Ms. Terra. I swear that I am not here with bad intentions. "
Monika can feel the static in the air, she knows that if this thing continues, there's no way Kira can leave alive, she unwillingly puts down her weapon: "Speak, before I change my mind."
"Thank you, m'lady." Wednesday slowly lifts up his left hand pointing to Kira. After an indescribable comfort noise, Kira fell asleep. " Now we can talk," he said while adjusting his tie.
"Who the hell are you?" Every single second in this room is refreshing her point of view of the world. As if she knows and understands nothing.
"You already knew…" but when he looks into Monika's eyes, he knows that this difficult girl wants HIM to say it. " Well, I am a God, more specifically I am one of the old gods."
"Which god are we talking about? I've read stories when I was a kid, but Wednesday doesn't ring a bell," Monika said.
"Well. It seems you didn't read enough about it." as he speaks the wind outside the window starts howling like it wants to break into the room:" You are not ready young lady. Also, you wouldn't believe me if I told you."
"Try me." Monika is at the end of the stick for the lies. The tension in the room increases again.
Wednesday, let out a long sigh. Instead of explaining more, he sits beside Monika and tells her that Kira is now on the verge of breaking. He will lay a charm on her, that will make her forget about all of the pain and wounds. But in return Kira needs to fulfill a mission for him, so she won't be affected by the side effect of the charm.
"I will do it," Monika said without a single moment of hesitation. At this point, she'd do anything to get rid of Wednesday.
The next day. Outside of the city. "Why do people like to hide stuff in the caves..." Monika stands outside a cave and prepares to go in. Before she left the military barracks, Wednesday taught her some new tricks. Now she's able to store and utilize items she owns with her ability. Wednesday calls it the treasure of the sun. But Monika decides to not name it at all.
In an instant, her powerful sword appears in her hand then she enters the cave. The cave has some blue crystals on the wall, shining with cold blue light. She takes a piece and holds it like a flashlight. As she goes further into the cave, she suddenly hears some noise. She gently puts down the crystal and proceeds to check out the source of the noise. The closer she gets the noise becomes a conversation. Then she hears a voice that she's familiar with.
"Oh, come on. Don't be such a nut head. Even you serve a different lord, but we are all Necrons after all. Can you please borrow it for me? Please!" It's Trazyn, but this time he's talking to a Necron-like figure, but it looks a bit different than Trazyn. It seems to be a mix between humans and Necron. It speaks with a human mechanical voice, like a human with a robotic voice filter:" We cannot let you pass. No matter who you are. Or which master you serve. Leave before death comes upon you."
Monika's heart is pumping fast at this point. It's been a little while since the last time she met Trazyn. But she did not realize that her heartbeat attracted something.
After a short scream, Monika is being thrown in front of Trazyn. The person who did it was Imotekh. " Trazyn, do you recognize this animal?" He speaks like a hunter who just caught a rabbit.
Trazyn is very surprised that the place he and Monika would meet again is here. "Yes, I do, and I am not happy with the way you treated her."
"Too bad, next time keep your toy together so I won't even have to step on it," Imotekh speaks like what you would expect from him. A cruel ruler. " Did you convince him?"
"Ahh, not quite yet. Maybe I will try harder…" As Trazyn about to continue, Imotekh hit the wall with his fist.
"I've heard enough of your futile efforts. Leave with your pathetic animal, I shall retrieve it myself." He then stands in front of the half Necron." what are you called?"
"Pariah, the great one," it replied.
"I mean your name. Do you have a name?" Imotekh said.
"I used to be a human; my name was Tomas Macbee. Then I was transferred to serve the lost Necron dynasty on this planet. " It was still lifeless. Despite being half-human, the normal Necrons seem to have more life than the Pariah.
"Why can't we retrieve the artifact that you are guarding?" Imotekh always asks questions that are on point.
"I am sworn to protect it and I will continue doing so."
"Your master is gone."
"Doesn't matter, the mission is still active."
While both of them are arguing, Monika and Trazyn are chatting about their experiences when they were apart. She told Trazyn the new ability she got but she skipped the part in the ork bastion.
Trazyn is amazed by it and gives a small Necron phase blade to Monika. It is a blade that's designed to cut through the immaterial. Just when both of them are catching up, Imotekh blows off the pariah's head.
"I'm sick of this…. nonsense, but his loyalty is admirable regardless." Imotekh kicks his head to Monika. "Aren't you supposed to fetch it for me?"
Monika is mad, but Trazyn puts his hand on her shoulder:" I guess you got what you wanted?"
Imotekh takes out the artifact behind the wall. It's an interdimensional orb that was owned by the old overlord of Necron. However, something went wrong. While Imotekh is holding the orb, there's some black oil dripping out from there.
Monika recognizes it, but when she's about to tell Imotekh to drop the orb. It has already started cracking. Then a bright light shines through the whole cave. When the outside imperial force came to check for the source of the light. Nothing was left in the cave, not even the blue crystals.
A missing person file is sent towards the capital after a few days of investigation. A local captain seemed to be missing, but in that area every day there are dozens of people are missing; therefore, the priority is not that high.
Headache, that's the first thing Monika feels after waking up. She sees Trazyn and Imotekh are discussing something. Then Trazyn waves at her.
"How long was I out?" She still has some intense headaches but right now she's more bothered by what happened in the cave.
"Not very long, but we do have a bigger problem." Trazyn is checking with the scanner. "Apparently, we are now in an undiscovered dimension."
"WHAT?" her headache is making her speak very loudly, she's not in the mood of guessing or puzzle solving.
Imotekh is looking at the surroundings, this place looks like any imperial populated planet, but something is a bit off. They are in the forest, but they can also sense a lot of electronic signals coming from within the trees. Also, the whole place is too silent for anything to be alive.
Monika leans her hand on a boulder, the headache is too intense she feels like she's going to faint at any moment. Trazyn notices that and he lays his hand on her head to check out what was causing the headache. Then he realized something unusual from the scanners, apparently, a lot of electronic signals are constantly attacking Monika through mind-invading abilities, but it is strange because electronic signals are usually from machines, and everyone around here is biological.
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Trazyn looks around and sees the source of the attack is from a bug on the tree. And there are hundreds of them surrounding Monika. Trazyn picks up the pariah's body on the floor and takes out a small piece from the core of the body.
He puts it next to Monika's head and suddenly the signal stops and Monika's headache is suddenly gone. He then put it away and the headache came back as well. Just to be sure he did it a few times more.
"ARE YOU DONE? This isn't funny!" She's not in a good mood for jokes. She pouts.
"I think I found a solution for you, can you put it away with your ability and see if it works." Trazyn crouches and hands over the small chip.
She did it but the signal came back.
"Hmmm, I guess you will have to carry it. Apparently, everything in this place is trying to attack your biological mind." Trazyn then helps Monika to get up from the ground.
"What did you do with this piece of chip?" She asks.
"Pariahs are the unit we made from humans and transform it into a hybrid. It was designed to create something like a psychic vacuum. Which will give immense pain to the surrounding psykers. However, we also added some technologies which will block potential psychic invasion as well. So, I took the special metal out and here we go." Trazyn answers.
Imotekh suddenly receives something that he's been searching for in this place. He came over and said:" I found the location of the tomb world in this place. If I can awaken it, this will be a new Necron tomb world. " Even at this moment, all he could think about is to expand the territory. But the question still remains, why is there a tomb world in this place? If this is an undiscovered dimension.
"So, I guess, you will go ahead and do your thing?" Trazyn asks.
" Yes, you and the human can standby." Imotekh is about to access the mainframe of the tomb world.
"Wait, how long will the awakening be done?" Monika asks.
" Decades or even more." Imotekh is about to teleport.
"Wait what?..." before she could say anything, Imotekh was already gone.
"Decades…. Decades…. So does it mean that I can never go home?..." she mumbles while having a hopeless grim face.
Trazyn lightly put his hand on her shoulder:" it usually wouldn't be that long, especially with Imotekh. Despite he's a ruthless conqueror but he is a few geniuses among the Necron phaerons so I think it will be faster."
Monika grins, at least she's glad that she's got Trazyn with her:" Thanks, that's exactly what I want to hear."
Suddenly they heard something from the bushes, and a tiger-like creature jumped in front of them. Like the dog Monika met a while ago, this one is also half mechanical. When it's about to attack both of them. It suddenly got grabbed from the deep forest by a tree branch-like hand. And pulled away with a scream.
As the tiger got pulled away, the earth shakes, and it's coming towards Monika and Trazyn. Both of them ready up their weapons and they see a half mechanical Ent
It attacks both and slaps its tree hand on top of them, Monika dodged away but Trazyn phased through it with the Phase Shifter technology. And throws a green orb to the Ent.
Its body starts burning with the green fire, but the attacks still continue. Monika uses this opportunity to jump over on the head which isn't burning and plugs in a plasma grenade.
As she jumps off, she throws a backsword towards the grenade to detonate it. After a blue light shines on the head of the Ent, it finally falls on the ground.
"That was something." Monika hits off some of the burning ashes on her jacket. But as she is about to walk towards Trazyn, she sees a group of humanoid beings coming towards both of them." Trazyn, can you see them?" she said.
"Yes." he throws an earpiece to Monika:" Put it on, it's a universal translator, let's not kill them first."
As they are surrounded by dozens of unknown aliens, one of them comes in on a 'horse' and stands in front of them. She wears red knight armor gears with a long sword and is recognized as their leader:" what are you? " Her voice is authoritative.
Monika replied:" I am a human from the imperial world of Terren. The name is Monika Terra, Cpt of the imperial Navy…" she then got interrupted by the woman on the horse.
"What about you, you seem more civilized than that." That she means Monika.
"Dear, lady. I am a traveler, if you won't mind, my name is Trazyn. And the human is with me, she's also a traveler." he bows.
"Two travelers can take down an Ent?" She sounds impressed.
"We just did what we could, my lady. Would you mind enlightening us with your grace?" Trazyn continued bowing without having direct eye contact, while Monika just stood there looking at this.
"I am Captain Ria Ivor, of the bladehold. Since I guess both of you aren't from this world, then I will say it only once. I am an Auriok warrior from Mirrodin." her tone is strict like one of those female commissars in the imperium army. "I will give you an opportunity to join us, or you will be slain right here."
"That doesn't sound like an opportunity at all…" Monika mumbles. Then everyone was looking at her with killing intent. She then lowers her head.
Seeing Monika respond with that, Trazyn said:" We will be gone for now, if our path crossed again. We will join you. But right now, we want to see the world by ourselves."
Surprisingly Ria takes this answer quite well: "Do what you wish but beware that we are at war on the land you are standing."
"War, against who?" Trazyn asks.
"The Phyrexian, they are made by their father of the machine and now they are taking over the planet. The half mechanical monsters you see are the creatures that are transformed by the Phyrexian. If you think this through, go north and you will find the settlement called the Bladehold. That's where you can find me." She then signed the followers to leave with her.
"Well, that was taken care of." Trazyn holds a dagger.
"Where did you get that?" Monika asks.
" I took it while we were talking to that knight on the horse. Would be a good starting point for my collection of this world." He then teleports it into the dimension where he stores the collected goods.
"If you can do that, why can't we teleport to the gallery and go back to our original world?" Monika is curious about it.
" Well, you see it's a bit different. The dagger goes to a pocket dimension for my own personal use, and it's linked with myself only. However, what we need is a Necron device that can teleport us through the web way we built eons ago. So, the problem is that we cannot connect ourselves to the network. That's why we can't really do anything at this point." Trazyn is being very patient now. " So, for Imotekh he wants to conquer this place and thus it will take him ages to get the army awakened. However, if he only needs to get the teleporter online, I think the time will be reduced by a lot. If I estimated correctly, it might take him around a year."
Monika only grasps a bit of what he said, but she's still happy that at least they have a plan instead of waiting aimlessly. "So, what do we do until then?"
"I was thinking maybe we can explore around this new world and see what we can find." deep inside he wants to do some tests on the subjects of this planet because at the end of the day he still needs to follow the command of the silent king. Which is finding a new suitable host for the new Necron race.
But that can wait, instead, he wants to find more things to collect. As they kept walking on the small road, Trazyn saw a small village under the strangely shaped mountain. "Maybe we can go to the village and check it out, what do you say, Monika?" Monika is a bit tired from what happened today and nods her head.
In the village, everything seemed a bit off. The general population is all half mechanicalized thus making Monika a strange present among them. However, they did not attack or be unfriendly towards them.
The general villagers are mostly 'monsters' from human standards. Creatures with long necks and eyes popping out are the least strange thing around here. The most human-like beings are probably the elves but naturally, they are not friendly to the human race.
After asking around, they finally found a hotel, if they have to be honest it is more like a hole but with a receptionist. The owner of the hub is a blond elven woman with straight long hair. You can hardly identify it as an elf if you ignore the long pointy ear. "Good evening, what can I get for you two?" she has a light sweet voice as if she's singing.
"We are travelers, so we are not very familiar with the situations around here," Monika said. She then takes out her credit card:" do you guys accept this or what kind of currency do you people use?"
The woman blinks a few times, seemingly confused. She then takes out a copper coin handing it over to Monika:" this is what we use in our land. We are a town that's known for copper production. Maybe during the daytime, you can visit our holy tree: Tangle." She then looked at those two unusual visitors and left out a long sigh:" I guess you guys can't really pay for the hotel today. But since you guys are new to this land, I will act as a good host."
"Thank you, chief," Monika responds while sounding relaxed.
"Ah, Ah." The elven woman waves from her index finger from left to right:" Don't get me wrong, I will let you guys stay because there aren't a lot of visitors coming by. If you create a mess or you plan something shady, I will kick you guys out. Am I clear?"
Both Monika and Trazyn agree with the condition, but the elf hasn't finished:" my name is Elrene Vendes. Also, one more condition." She purposely paused:" Make sure you guys have fun in this place."
Monika really likes this elven woman in front of her. Due to her physique, it reminds her of Nova, but her sister never had a personality like this. Sudden fatigue made Monika stop thinking. She then went into the room with Trazyn.
After they are gone, Elrene takes out a small notebook and writes down the facial details of Monika and Trayzn. The exact purpose is unknown but, in the notebook, there's a lot of other names already. Most of them have their name crossed out.
While Monika is asleep, Trazyn starts to revise the event that happened today. One thing he noticed is that there aren't mechanical marks on Elrene's body. While comparing to all of the creatures from outside, the general looks on Elrene are too 'clean' for comparison. He senses there's something wrong with this place, but he's in no hurry. After all, for Trazyn, there aren't really a lot of things he hasn't seen before.
In the morning, Monika wakes up sounding like a comfortable cat. She then sees Trazyn looking at her while holding a book. She suddenly realized that he was in this room the whole night when she was sleeping.
Subconsciously she didn't get weirded out, but when she came to her senses, she threw the pillow to him and covered herself with the blanket:" Don't look!" She's still not used to having another person in the room.
Trazyn shakes his head and continues to go through the piles of books on the desk.
"What are you reading?" Monika takes a towel from the drawer and prepares to take a morning shower.
"Books about the local history. Interestingly, the Phyrexia event happened not very long ago. When you are done, I can explain it to you if you want." He points his finger in the bathroom direction without looking at Monika.
Monika is a sensitive person, she's not really happy that someone is in her room and while pretending nothing is happening. At some point, she's a bit mad that Trazyn isn't peeking at her. But when she came to her senses, she realized that fundamentally Trazyn is still a robot, and having the boredom of seeing it all in the universe makes him a bit aloof about almost everything. She just replied a simple: "sure." Then proceed to the shower.
In the shower, she's a bit disappointed that Trazyn is a robot but not a person. If Trazyn can somehow transform his consciousness into a person then it would be perfect. She suddenly covers her face and feels the silliness run through her body like a speed train. She's a bit ashamed to have this kind of silly thought. Before she gets out of the shower, she makes sure that she comes out with a straight face.
"So, how was the shower?" Trazyn asks while putting away his book. Monika is facing back to him, despite being a robot, he read plenty of books about the art of curvature and the beauty of life. He knows that Monika is indeed a beautiful creature that is designed carefully by gods. But he felt like she's like a beautiful painting that should be observed with a distance. And after all, who would like a person like him, that person needs to be seriously checked up if they managed to develop a feeling to him, he scoffs internally.
"It was adequate, still, I was amazed that there's a hot shower in a place like this." She quickly puts on the clothes ready to leave. When she turns, she sees Trazyn was looking at her seemingly having a thought. Monika didn't really react violently; she just calmly checks her weapons making sure they are polished and armed and then turns to Trazyn: "So... are you ready to tell me what you found out?" She said teasingly
"Wait, I got something for you." He hands over a bag, inside there's a lot of local currency.
"Where did you get all of that?" Monika is surprised at how much Trazyn can make over a night.
"Trade secret." he sounds very proud of himself.
"Or do you mean 'Traze' secret~" she started one of those stupid wordplays.
"No… just no. Don't even mention that ever again." Trazyn shakes his head and proceeds to leave the room.
There aren't really a lot of people in the dining hall. While Monika is eating the unknown species' egg, Trazyn hands over some silver coins to Elrene. She's also surprised that the person who didn't have a single coin can make this much over a night. "Keep the change, for your kindness," Trazyn said.
While Monika is eating breakfast, Trazyn explains to her the general history and what happened in this place. The main points are as followed:
Argentum was an artificial world created by the planeswalker Karn and renamed after the Mirari by its warden Memnarch. The outer sphere of the plane has a circumference of 1400 kilometers, with a diameter of around 450 kilometers. Mirrodin's environments and inhabitants mixed organic and metallic. From sharp razorgrass that grew fast enough to impale unfortunate humans, to oceans that flowed with an unusual form of quicksilver, even the most delicate flower was made of metal. The intelligent beings who walked Mirrodin were no less strange, an odd mish-mash of muscle and steel. Artifact creatures also walk the planet. Some seem to have come about naturally, while some have artificially been created.
As Karn had unknowingly brought the glistening oil to Mirrodin, it planted a virus on Mirrodin that slowly spread. The first to be infected was Memnarch. Unbeknownst to most Mirrans, Phyrexia was rebuilding itself, using the metal structures of their world as its host substrate.
Some Metal-infused inhabitants of Mirrodin were a perfect breeding ground for the spread of Phyrexian corruption, which made them even stronger at the same time that corroded their minds and bodies.
For the new phyrexia there's something called the Praetors, which is the leader of each faction that's conquering this planet:
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite — The white Praetor of unity. Her philosophy falls in line with the idea of a fascist, unified theocracy. Currently the dominant praetor.
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur — The blue Praetor of experimentation. He leads his faction towards subversive experimentation to understand and exploit their enemies.
Sheoldred, Whispering One — The black Praetor of enslavement. She is the most traditional leader, believing in wholesale slaughter and subjugation. Recently, her forces have been utterly defeated by Elesh Norn's forces.
Urabrask the Hidden — The red Praetor of industry. His philosophy is more industrious than his blue counterpart, building greater and greater artificial monstrosities and weapons. The red trait of independence makes this faction the least like the original hive-mind make-up of Phyrexia.
Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger — The green Praetor of predation. He believes most in the survival of the fittest and eugenics, killing those deemed weak and augmenting the great predators of Mirrodin.
Just about Trazyn continues, Monika stopped him:' Alright, I think that's plenty to know for now…" she suddenly feels stupid compared to Trazyn. The fact that Trazyn did all of that research over a night was one of the reasons she went to Cadiarc. She feels like she's always behind.
Trazyn sees through what she's thinking, he takes out the little pyramid trinket Monika gave him a while ago:" I am always incapable of doing something like this in my life. No matter how long I've lived. The thinking process of pure randomness and chaos results in something so insignificant yet so beautiful. It's like a miracle, like turning air into gold. You are the only one that makes me feel special about myself. It might be hard to understand but trust me, you are always better than me in every way possible."
Monika is more confused instead of being touched. However, she does appreciate the effort Trazyn goes through to make her feel better. She's also happy that he kept the little trinket with him instead of putting it somewhere in the gallery.
"So, does it mean that we are going to deal with the praetors? " She asks, at this point it's better to trust Trazyn's judgment rather than acting with a hothead.
"I don't really think so, one of the rules in galactic traveling is that when you are encountering an unknown civilization, it's better to leave it and let it sort it out by itself. We will however act if one of them is messing with us." Trazyn said it while keeping his voice down because right now they are on the territory of the green Praetor, Voinclex, the voice of hunger. So, he doesn't want people in this place to know their plans.
Monika lightly nods her head and starts noticing the surroundings and the people in this place, she suddenly has a hunch as Trazyn did. This place isn't as friendly as it looks.