Watching as the beast reared back another head preparing to lock its gaze on us. I whispered urgently to everyone, "Touch me or at least touch each other."

I watched in shock as Lucidity managed to fracture jvb's sword before collapsing on the ground by us. "No ... don't! It's not his sword doing ..." And then I noticed that Lucidity was surrounded by the same aura that clung to the amulets.

I glared up at the beast and snarled ,"Wizard, you will not win!"

"jvb, grab your sword! Everyone, touch each other now! Viper, grab hold of Lucidity!"

I stared down into the mirror and prayed for this to work. I whispered "Kiya ... I need to see Kiya now. We need her to purify us .... please work."

Just as the cloudy picture cleared to show Kiya and a technicolor Orc the beast blasted us all one more time. "Aargh ..." Pain, I whimpered and managed to fall nose first into the mirror.

Whirling images, thoughts and whispers rushing through my mind, I heard the 'others' with me crying with pain and loss, and then we were lying at Kiya's feet. Most of us frozen in place, except our eyes which spoke of the tremendous pain we were suffering.

"Kiya ..." I managed to gasp. "Help us! We hurt."





~DragonQueen~