Archibald whispered,"Family meeting!" He locked the door behind him and swapped out his coat for a short-sleeved shirt while he muttered,"I cannot BELIEVE they never invented short-sleeved shirts on this planet!" Maeve's dress disappeared as she called her bodysuit out of her HSD. Neblae took a deep breath and her hair merged back into her skull as her normal head appeared. She sighed,"THAT feels better! Narchi, about this afternoon..." He pulled off his shoes and sat on the bed."There's something wrong with us. I think that Hel did something to us when it transported us here. Neon... I have a hard question for you to answer--Are Nebbles and I arguing more here than on Balaam?" Neon shrugged. "You guys used to fight all the time, but there was never any real anger to it. HERE... you guys have come to blows and angry ones at that. Number, no...Severity? Oh hell,yeah!" Narchi looked sad and tired. "I was afraid of that. Our fights have become out of character for BOTH of us. Neblae-- I could always count on YOU being the calm,cool one. You kept me steady and clear. Now... there's no connection between us." Neblae shrugged and asked,"Does this have to do with the missing 'Stone of Water'? We already know you aren't my 'coordinator' in the Four Sisters network anymore. I still have no idea why I still have the powers of the artifact,though!" Narchi said while waving a hand,"It's not just that. King spoke of it before we came here. Prince mentioned it. They harmonized with their partners. King with Leviathan and Prince with Sunshine. I FELT that on Hel with YOU. You were my receptacle for my rage. Now your artifact is gone, AND you still have ALL your powers. This has happened before, you know." She blinked."You mean with TOXIC? She's Druaga, like Kali and Typhon! She lost the powers when the Four Sisters went off-line and the planet Hel taught her how to perform the same as she already knew how to do. When she went temporarily crazy due to the madness of frenzy, the artifact of Fire removed itself from her! She's more powerful now then when she was a Four Sister! HOWEVER she's a Druaga, not a regular person!" Maeve cleared her throat. Narchi looked at her and asked,"Yes Maeve?" She groaned,"Call me NEON! Maeve is fine for the locals, but we don't have to maintain the pretense HERE! Narchi? Are you saying that Hel turned Neblae into a DRUAGA? Like Toxic? Nebbles was a TROW with NO Druaga genes in her at ALL!" Neblae opened her mouth with an enraged look on her face. Narchi held up a hand and asked,"WHY do you have powers and NO artifact? WHY are you SO angry right now?" Neblae closed her mouth in shock. "I don't know." Narchi said,"What did Jin always say about Toxic and red meat? Like the venison we had last night?" Neblae said,"That she'd become combative and argumentative and be bouncing off the walls for hours! Lords of Light! We've been poisoning ourselves on the local fauna and not knowing it. Now I'm a pot of boiling rage and YOU can't harmonize with me? How do we fix this?" Narchi shrugged."I don't know. Perhaps someone attuning to the Water stone or other Four Sister artifact can change you back. Maybe something here can? The Nautilus is flying right into a huge trap, with those Moon alien bastards shooting at any radio signal down here. We have to come up with some kind of signal that they might sense, without US being blown to powder." Neon asked,"So no hunting for venison tonight?" Narchi shook his head. "No use of LI/IR scopes in the dead of night tonight." She sighed and went to the door and swapped out her clothes for a flannel night shirt from her hyperspace-storage-device. She left and Neblae locked the door behind her. She sighed,"That explains ONE very important thing to me!" Narchi drew her into his arms and asked,"What?" She giggled,"Why our make-up sex has been SO damned hot recently!" He laughed. --TO BE CONTINUED!--