[quote]"wait, if I'm dead, that means I can't die again. sweet!"[/quote]

“I just said you’re not dead!” Lin smacked her forehead.

[quote]Out of no where Alice suddenly swung her blade, narrowly missing dice while shouting "Shut up you filthy cat!". Immediately after she noticed that she had almost hit someone and immediately apologized. "I.. uh... sorry... That wasn't directed at you.. I'm guna just stand over here..." Alice took a few steps back and kept her eyes off to the side, thoroughly embarrassed.[/quote]

Hez was utterly terrified of Alice's random attack and shivered a bit, keeping even closer to Lin.

“What in the world were you just doing there?” Lin raised an eyebrow at Alice.

[quote]"I caught most of that as I came up behind you guys, so I guess we have a bit of a problem to tackle. By the way, I'm Atropos."[/quote]

"Yep, we have a much larger problem zone than anything that's appeared before. Any help we can get will be great," Lin nodded. "We're almost there, so get ready for anything."

The team reached the outer edge of the three fusing zones, which looked like a trio of colorful water blobs melding together and gradually turning black at the center. Lin's eyes widened; she had [i]never[/i] seen anything like this, and the spectacle amazed her.

"Wow... just... wow," she gasped dumbly. "I don't even know where to begin with this..."

Hez stared blankly at the abnormal zones, mesmerized by the crazy colors while frightened of the myriad of confused emotions swirling around the place, a heavy miasma looming over the Oneiros team. Even so, Hez seemed most interested in the black center of these three zones. Without thinking, she stepped toward the darkness in silence.

Lin exclaimed, "Where are you going, Hez!?"

The mute girl pointed back at the blackness and took a moment to explain her thoughts to her partner.

"The middle...? The center of it all...? You think the artifact is hiding in the center area?" she repeated, then pondered to herself. "Well... it kind of makes sense, since something is attracting them. But does the artifact belong to one dreamer and it mutated the other two? Is it the same kind of artifact for all three of them? Or is there some kind of rogue artifact causing all of this?"

All Hez could do was shrug and continue walking forward.

"You're right. All we can do is go in and look. Don't stray too far from us though. If any monsters attack us, you won't be able to fight them."