<div class="floatleft">(http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k581/Am_Dreams/human_wizard_by_saturnoarg-d3kpdus.jpg)</div><strong>@Loki Aesir: "Hard to tell what you saw, unless I saw it for myself to be honest - the flora and the fauna of the Desolation isn't something well known, and not one most people would care to know about.  But since you were unharmed when you were found, I must assume it was a hallucination on your part, indeed the pain is some all the Lost experience - most likely your soul adjusting to its new body.  But you are correct in assuming there is danger, but there's far too many for even I to list.  The Sanctuary will instruct you on most of the things that will keep you alive, but the rest is unfortunately hard-won experience."</strong><br/><br/><strong>@ Aybara: "I can't say I know much about the nature of the fire that everybody experiences when they become one of the Lost; my emphasis has always been one of survival rather than speculative ruminations about mysteries.  I understand there was a man who did such research, but I don't know him personally, though I heard he had disappeared quite some time ago, and I don't know what happened to any knowledge he may have horded over his time.  Perhaps somebody at the sanctuary can be of more use than I am."</strong><br/><br/><strong>@ Mysterium:</strong>Taking the mirror from diminutive woman, Philip did not place within his robes, but instead places it before him in easy reach of anybody who desires it.<strong>"An unfortunate occurrence missy, though few of the Lost are entirely displeased with the bodies they now inhabit.  Still you may take heart - in this world, magic, or perhaps something we don't understand, but call it magic, is real and even shaping your body to one you find more pleasing is not impossible.  That may come in time, and there are those who may do it for you, though no such alteration is permanent, and in time the body must resume its true form."</strong><br/><br/><br/><strong>"I have answered many of your questions, but now I have some of my own to pose; you have the advantage of my name, but I not yours.  Likewise, I should dearly like to know - what time period do you come from?  Do you know the outcome of the Second World War?  Whilst I fought in it, I'm afraid I found myself here shortly thereafter we had began to land on the beaches of France."</strong>