<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'"><i>Okay, I'm in.</i></span><br/><br/>Ray looked around. The normally buzzing entry port was as quiet as a church crypt.<i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Where is she?</span></i>She sent a message to Renne, ghosted to the rest of the admins via the tablet link. Renne's answer, that Jasper was in the starting area village, made her nod with approval. She selected the portal and enjoyed the graphic she'd put in herself, that was a total rip-off of the Stargate SG1 wormhole graphic. People actually loved it! It was in some ways like riding a water slide. Her golden angel avatar materialised at the edge of the village and she looked around.<i>Odd</i>. There was a large winged horse standing in the village square, next to a knight of some kind. The knight had his or her back to Ray, made a dismissive gesture to the pegasus, and started to walk away. The winged horse, however, looked up directly at Ray.<br/><br/><i>"Oh no you don't, I want this one...!"</i><br/><br/>The message spat into Ray's awareness, not via the headphones, nor via the goggles, but somehow seemed to bypass both. She stepped forward and was stopped by something that felt like a denial barrier. "What the ... heck?" She swore, the software that ran this part of the Game recognised the word and changed it to one less offensive. "Admin code override Romeo Alpha Yankee." The barrier vanished, but so had the knight and the horse.<i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Renne? There's someone else in here with us.</span></i><br/><br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>The winged horse snickered at Jasper's answer. "No, my Lady. You don't understand. You do not have a choice in this." It paused then. There was an intrusion. This was not allowed. The horse sent a message to the intruder and slammed up a barrier of the kind used to keep the under-age players from entering the R-rated areas of the game. That should keep the administrator busy for a few thousand nanoseconds. It would search for, and block off, the admin's access, as soon as it had The Lady safely away. The horse spread it's wings and bounded, landing nimbly in front of Jasper. "Forgive me, My Lady, but this is for your own good". A hoof lashed out, catching Jasper a glancing blow on the temple.<br/><br/>The winged horse quickly enlisted the help of the villagers, loaded Jasper into the saddle and took off. The blow was not hard, just enough to render her dizzy while she was loaded.<br/><br/>The Pegasus flew steadily for a while, high above the empty game countryside. Clouds floated by. Some smiled and waved, others did nothing. The saddle would be very comfortable, and equally impossible for Jasper to fall out of. "My Lady?" The Winged horse enquired, then went on, "I do apologise for striking you, but you need to accompany me, I cannot allow you to be endangered. We are awaiting you."