Welcome to Gaia! ::

*The strange woman stood on the opposite side of the lake from the Mansion with her lifeless eyes gazing at it. Her gaze would likely have been called intent, but because of that lifelessness, it was only eerie. The time is coming. she would think to herself. Yes it will be soon now.*

*The woman was startled. She had allowed herself to get too deep into thought. That wouldnt bode well in the future. She would fix that.*

What I do here is of no concern to you and neither is who I am. Also, I have no desire to get to know such a simple being as yourself.

*She then looked at Truinthil with as interested a look as her lifeless eyes could give. There was something working in her mind about him, but what it was would not be known to anyone but her. She had shut her mind off from the rest of the world now. She would no longer allow others to read her mind either. That was dangerous.*

Fine. It does not matter to me. I will not interfere, however. At least not in any way that you would think.

*She turned her gaze back to the Mansion for a few more minutes, then simply vanished, a rippling in the air being left behind.*

Derrek nodded. During his research, he had stumbled across some things that would work well into the seals for the ritual. "Give me a while to get ready and we can get started. Oh, but first, do you have any chalk? I'm going to need quite a bit."

Eva and Company would start to appear from the far-off distance. They would be coming up tword the lake, and to enter the boat soon.

She stopped before getting in, and turned around to the drone.

"Hey, you can't come with... The lake would make you all rusty if you sunk..."

Eva patted the drone on it's shell, and smiled.

"Right then. I'll head over then." Derrek said to the disappearing figure of Draeken. Derrek turned back to the table and gathered his stuff together, organizing it into piles to continue with later. Then, after a quick goodbye to Phia, Derrek walked to the training room, expecting Draeken to be there already.

Derrek said nothing. He simply set the chalk on the ground and began tracing the circles and figures around Draeken. There were many more than those around Ayiana. This was because Draeken (Derrek assumed) had more power and would thus need more containment should things go haywire. Once the circles, the chain in a square (as it was for Ayiana), and the floating cloths were in place once again, Derrek went to a corner of the room and picked up five items he'd stored there before. While wandering the mansion after spending some time researching in the library, he'd found some objects around to aid in the spell. Walking around the circle, he drove weapons into the floor around the circle. In the lower right, he drove a ceremonial sword inlaid with ruby jewels. In the upper right, a halberd (stolen from a suit of armor) with a head and a haft made of Damascus steel. The lower left was a curved sword of transparant metal designed both for melee combat and throwing. A mace of steel stood on its head in the upper left. A metal whip trailed off the end of the jade hilt of a dagger stuck in the peak of the star. Sitting before that, Draeken drew a chalk circle around himself and raised the binding orb above his head. This binding would be more difficult, so with three breaths to steady himself, he reached forward, leaving the orb floating above his head, and drew forth Draeken's knot.