| "What happened?" asked Astra, shaking her head to try to clear it.
"And where are we?" "It looks just like how I've heard Atlantis was supposed
to look. As to what happened, I used the Crystallic, and wished for what
I wanted to achieve, that my bite should take immediate effect. I didn't
buy that 'demifox but not werefox' tale. I didn't intend to kill
the dwarf, though. As to why we seem to have been transported to Atlantis,
I have no idea, except that the Crystallic originally came from there.
It looks as if trying to use the Crystallic if you aren't a mage may be
a dangerous business. I was wondering if I could use it to restore
us, but now I think that would be far too risky""
"I see. I didn't intend to kill the lawyer either but, not surprisingly
in the circumstances, my hand slipped. So we really are werefoxes and only
have a week or so left to get ourselves restored? I'm not really surprised;
the idea that we aren't didn't really fit. In that case I'd have said that
being several thousand miles away from Walants would have made it rather
difficult to get to Synizn within the time limit, except - did I dream
it, or did I hear voices, and one of them say Synizn? And one voice sounded
just like you?" "Yes," said Fred, "but that makes no sense." "Well, we
seem to have these choices:
"To
try to follow the voices, and find out who they are and what they are doing
here."
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