------------- Days of Future Past

The ship lurched and fell several hundred feet. Fallon could hear Tyberion yowling down in the hold. The gryphons were all scratching and tearing to hold on. Serenity floated through the cabin with a broad grin. This had been the first time she'd been weightless in two lifetimes, it seemed. She might have been enjoying it, but they were all about to die. Fallon felt like she's was about to puke. Then the ship grabbed the air again and Safron punched the throttles. Everything came to an equally unpleasant thunk on the cabin floor. Fallon heard Tyberion in her mind. She wasn't aware a Moorcat cub could think in such colorful language.

A few minutes later they were all unloaded. Surprisingly, there had been no broken bones or wings down in the hold. The animals all seemed to be fine. The only apparent damage was to the Ravenclaw, but it would soon repair itself. Until then, they were stuck here.

Serenity was reviewing her scans. The blast had originated somewhere near the Valley of Sepu'rekh Ashir. They knew that much, but what hit them was not the overpressure. It was a time wave from a different direction, she was certain of it. Off in the distance, they could see a massive, billowing cloud of smoke. But that was the wrong direction. The valley was back to the north, behind them.

They loaded up on their gryphons and started out to investigate. What they found was a crash site next to a landing field of some sort. Nothing indicated there should be a structure here. It didn't look like anything they'd ever seen. It was old, partially buried in sand, but its styling and architecture didn't match anything Arrallonian. The crash itself was enormous. Some ship had struck here after exploding in midair, it seemed. There was debris and wreckage everywhere, and no sign of a single body. Had they all managed to escape? Was this some sort of starship, blasted out of the sky by the lightning crystal? Serenity finally found something on her scans. There was a device in the wreckage, a chair with veins of fluxstone running to a hat or helmet attached to the top. There were signs of Houlifar DNA in the blood splattered there. This was the Rok-Var-Dis, or what was left of it.

Just then they heard a shout. A girl was standing near the building, calling to them. They didn't understand her at first, then she spoke in Carellonian.

"Hey there. Rescue squad? What unit? I don't recognize the ship configuration, but one of the passengers is over here. Do you have a healer? She's hurt pretty bad."

Neferites saw something odd in her eyes. When they got closer, she could tell. Here eyes were all the colors of the rainbow, and had an internal glow not unlike the Princess. The girl was Krell, no doubt about it. But where had she come from, dressed so strangely and carrying such odd weapons?

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