The battle was the first of many as the new party journeyed closer to the Arena.
Thankfully, the opposition they met was not very powerful, since those who could resist the call of the Arena mainly were mindless or beings of pure instincts who knew better than to go to a place that stank of such great power.
Still, for the Elythrii, the journey through the Shattered Mirror and beyond was a descent into a waking dream of cosmic absurdity as they saw creatures of nightmares that haunted their waking moments and learned of the absurdity of life on such a grand scale that it shook them all to the core.
The arguments between Fury and Vraegar became a familiar soundtrack, their eternal debate a strangely comforting anchor in the increasingly unstable reality.
