Just a small update today.
This is a serial, first part is HERE
Chapter 4: Beneath a Green sky, the dead and the living
<Arrival at destination platform confirmed. Dispersing arrival platform. All systems normal, no aberrations have attached themselves to the SDC’s exterior. Display outside on main mirror?>
-Display-
Rolling hills of pale grey grass waved back and forth as if greeting the dimensional traveller who had appeared. The sky had a faint green cast to it, because in the far distance, it was covered with leaves. The wind was quite gentle in its passage through the grasses. A sheltered peaceful place.
The skeleton sat in his throne, gazing at the life displayed on the mirror before him, completely silent. Unmoving as if his unlife had left him. A low soft sigh came from him, and the moment was gone. He summoned a visual on the mirror and began to look into the place that he had arrived.
[Dimension: Motive Crystalfire]
[World: Kigan]
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[Status: Dimensional Skein Whole]
[Status: Awakened Dimension of Laws]
[Status: Laws are motion based]
[Warning: Laws are radiative type, long term exposure may lead to adoption of Native Laws]
[Status: Most Outsider Laws and Delusions should function]
[Status: Semi-Stable Environment]
[Status: Climate hospitable to most lifeforms]
[Warning: Prolonged Residence by unlifeforms is not advised, Natural Judgement Trials present!]
[Status: Nonhostile to Lesser Outsiders]
[Warning: Several Large Scale Spell Matrices detected]
[Warning: For prohibitions and triggers of said Matrices, please check the relevant record]
[Confirmation: SDC remains undetected]
[Summary: Barring hostile native existences, world is considered safe for exposure to]
-The key question then, is why is this place logged?-
[Location of Lab/Clinic]
The majority of the coordinates logged had such a tag, but there was no further information. Nothing about what kind of place, nothing about what was within such places. So then, that left only one thing to do.
Dr. Bones made sure he was ready for a little expedition, and then he stepped out of the coffin.
A native of Kigan might have taken it for granted, but the moment Dr. Bones stepped into the grass, the moment the breeze rattled about his bones, he felt it.
Magic.
Two dominant forms were pollen from the great tree above and the mana of spirits and spells broken, the motes from all the living things around. Dr. Bones knelt before the grass and stared at it. Even such a thing was producing motes of magic.
I spite of being nothing but bones, in spite of his life’s memories being obscured, under the caress of the flow, he felt alive. This moment of bliss, was of course interrupted by the distant sound of painful coughing.
There’s a saying throughout the dimensions.
Soldiers get embroiled in war, Detectives find mysteries, Heroes meet Villains and Doctors discover sickness.
The saying often gets extended to other occupations and professions, but it remains true.
Dr. Bones headed in the direction of the coughing.