Good news and warning (part 1)

Manbear Synizn looked and felt a warmth in his chest as he looked into the worried eyes of Carradene and the others of the Pack through the borrowed magic mirror.

Tiamat! It's good to see them! the ursine magi thinks as he sees them. They probably were worried sick about me by the looks on their faces!

The manbear quickly assures his Packmates that he was fine and safe. He then explained what had happened.....after having them raise magical cloaks against spying raised.

"Yes, I did indeed look into how my otherworld brothers were doing," Manbear Synizn admitted. "I'd just gotten them into focus to see them materialize in front of the Tower of Dr. Vincent when the ghost of the Doctor somehow reached out magically throw my scrying spell and yanked me into his dungeon....along with quite a few other mages and others who had been either outside the Tower or viewing the scene via magic.....or science."

The ursine magic user proceeds to tell how the Phantoms had been spying on Probe, and had-along with their Lizard allies-been dragged from the frigid depths of "outer space" to the dungeon of the ghostly Dr. Vincent. A complete listing of the unwilling "guests" were:

This reality's Malachi. Since she is now anchored magically to Ethiopia, and cannot leave its borders, once the teleportation "rope" was reeled in, when Malachi came to a halt at the border the tower was compelled to come to her.

Fred 3, Astra 3, their seven babies, Dragons Sigin and Synizn, Demifox Synizn and Probe.

Manbear Synizn, who had been interested in observing what his analogues were up to.

Dragon Fred, Malachi D'Honaire, Alicia 2 and Inquirer. Malachi is currently in human form.

Carradene 2, Rosepaw, Sigin Vulpine and Rosepaw and Sigin's twelve cubs. The cubs were too young to take much notice of what their parents had been observing, but had been close enough to their parents to get dragged in with them anyway.

Probe's base unit, together with four of the mysterious operatives known within the Alliance military as "Phantoms". The Phantoms had been tapping into Probe's base unit in order to spy on him, and had hence been sucked in. Three of the four were now black and very dead, thanks to the near instantaneous effect of the phage on most humans. The other was immune, probably totally but possibly only to the extent that he would die in a few days time.

Inquirer's base unit, together with three of the Enemy. They had been trying to dredge something out of the fried circuitry of the base unit, but it had been a hopeless task. The phage would kill them too, but it would be a slow death. They had been on the Phantoms' ship, thanks to their covert alliance with them. Getting bored with their task, they had looked across to where the Phantoms were looking at their feed from Probe, and so had got sucked in, together with the base unit they had been working on.

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