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"Who are you? Laneela backed away a step. She had a feeling this man was very dangerous.

"My name is Jarron, and I have a feeling I'm very far from home..." Jarron stared first at the shuttle, then towards the sky. It was then that Grotick groaned.

Laneela bent over him, "Grotick, are you alright?" He opened his eyes and started to raise his hand to shoo her away, when he caught sight of Jarron. His eyes narrowed and he started for him, and promptly fell from exhaustion.

"Don't try to move...he may have hurt you, but you won't get anywhere with him in the condition you're in, Grotick." Laneela helped him lay back. All Grotick did then was nod his head in agreement, and lapse back into unconsciousness. "What did you do to him...Jarron, was it?"

"He's a tough one, that Grotick, but nothing I couldn't handle getting the jump on him. Now, I must ask, where am I?" Jarron questioned.

"You were in the cave of the Ancients...or the Original Race, if you want to get technical. You mean you don't know?" Now she was sure of her first assumption. He was definitely from another time, or at least another place.

"Cave of the...Ancients. It couldn't be? But it must." Jarron shook his head in confusion. He somehow activated the Staff, and it must have teleported him somewhere, by the looks of it, the future. And what was this Original Race...could she mean the people he was returning the Staff to?

Laneela waited while he puzzled things out in his mind. She could see that he was very worried about something, very confused. "It's the year 2010PD, if that helps you." she shrugged.

"PD? What does PD stand for?" She could see he was definitely worried now.

"Umm...it means Post-Destruction. That's the year on this planet anyway. On Earth, it's the year 2250AD. They have a different Religion than this planet. All the planets have their own history records. It can make things very difficult." She had glanced away in telling him this and when she looked back, his face was as white as a ghost.

"P-planets? You have found ways to travel between the stars easily? Without magic but with those...?" He pointed to the shuttle. "I must take time to contemplate...is there somewhere we might stay?"

"Well, we could probably make it back to the last city, but it will be late when we arrive. Come, let's board the shuttle." And with that, they were headed to the city to puzzle out exactly what had happened the the man they call Jarron.

To Be Continued...

Written by Dave Ray