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Erimentha crouch so she was close to eye level and smiled.
"Exactly, small, undetected and he can make a quick get away and hide if something happens. And that town up ahead could be anything, I would prefer to be safe than sorry. We can start walking in that direction but I would love to have a warning if anything went wrong."
She smiled genuinely and removed her scarf wrapping and handing it to the little fox.
"Here it's cold and you'll lose alot of heat. My names Erimetha by the way."

"Come on lets get going." She smiled but before she started walking she dug through her pockets looking for something.
"Ah here it is." She held a piece of chalk and then marked an X on the wall nearest to them.
"So we can find our way back and the rest of our comany can find us."

As the last of the adventurers disappeared from view Lord Ashen returned his attention to the main control lever of the gateway. 'Perhaps some sort of lock would prevent people playing with the device' he mused. As he began to try various locks around the lever the device began to activate without his involvement causing him to leap back startled.

Turning around he saw five individuals materialise into the room all wearing long military coats and gas masks beneath helmets. Unfortunately all his weapons were on the bench behind the military personal. One of the soldiers looked at a photo and then nodded to his comrades who restrained Lord Ashen. The officer then looked at the gateways control panel and took out a device from his coats pocket which he fitted to the base of the control panel. That done he activated a button on wrist and the soldiers disappeared with Lord Ashen from the room.

Erimentha kept marking small chalk X's on the posts as she walked past them, she could hear the train and a small wiff of the smoke which meant they were hearding in th right direction, but something did not feel right at all.

"Something's happened, call it nervouseness but my female intuition tells me otherwise."

A spark...movement...pain. Slowly, fitfully, the small machine which kept Aster Lansky's heart beating restarted, mere moments before it would have killed him. He awoke with a strangled cry of pain. Somehow, he had not emerged in the same place as the others, perhaps a result of having been clinically dead on arrival. With his returning consciousness, he made note to adjust the device, whose defibrillation was apparently interrupted by dimensional travel. Though his whole body were in pain, he slowly began to survey his surroundings.

Lord Ashen was thrown into a darkened room and his captors shut the door behind him. The room went entirely dark for a second before a powerful bright light fell on him temporarily blinding him. "Lord Ashen, I presume" a voice said.
"Yes, who am I talking to and where am I?" he replied
"You are in another world Lord Ashen, a fact I would have thought you would have realised by now. Perhaps I was mistaken to bring you here after all. As for who you are speaking to all you need to know is that you are speaking to the future ruler of the multiverse." The voice stopped and the speaker began to cough.

The light spread through the room and Lord Ashen realised that the light was coming from a crack in the blast doors which were now been lowered. The man who had been addressing him was seated opposite the door on a heavy oak seat. He was an older gentleman in his late fifties with a long white beard and garbed in heavy robes. On either side of him stood two men with large battle axes and heavy mail. "You will have to forgive an old man for trusting the old ways" the King said indicating the rooms medieval adornment. Yet without the windows the blast doors had covered could be seen the sky.

"What do you want from me? " Lord Ashen demanded. The King merely gave a hearty laugh "The little man has spirit" he said to his guards "Well as a reward for your bravery I will tell you. I want you to make a larger gateway."

Erimentha stiffened when she heard the low rumble of hooves drawing near to them and her grip tightened on the cane.
"Aj, hide your ears with my scarf, we don't now what the people are like here." She whispered hurridly and listened intently until the horsemen got to them.

"Good evening to you too sir, yes we are heading to Durham, I'm guess you found my little marks, we lost one of our companions further back and we thought it would help him find us." Erimentha bullshitted and pretended she knew exactly what she was doing, her grip on her cane didn't loosen however.
"I'm sorry to cause you any inconveiance."