<hr/><br/><em>Robert said, “What’s out there? Is it the same thing that attacked us and took our families?”</em><br/><br/>"I do not know. I only know that you must face it." Cern said.<br/><br/>He smiles at Maggie, "I'll not leave you alone. We are here to help." He follows right along behind them, the little glowing pixies all swarming ahead to cut the darkness. They move in fast little zig zags and often slip back quickly to buzz around Cern then out again.<br/><br/>The groups travel is swift with only a few pauses as Cern calls them to hide next to a wall as something moves in the shadows. "We are not meant to be here. They are trying to seize this opportunity to break through into your world. The barrier is in flux until you can get home again." He tries to communicate his understanding of what's happened to them, especially to Maggie. "We've never seen so many of you before at one time.... I.. I get ahead of myself though. I should tell you first that you are in the place known as the Mistlands. Well, one part of it. Here the barrier between our realm and yours is weak but that's because it only exists when all of you created it. The darkness is trying to spill out into it and find a path through you into the next place. Once we get you all home then the barrier will grow stronger again and stop them."<br/><br/>His words trail off again as he pulls them up short. It was only a few minutes travel but somehow they traveled clear across the neighborhoods and are now just across the street from the hole in the fence that leads to the old rail yards. The roaring of the freight train comes into focus with a nearly deafening sound.<br/><br/>"We must go there then," Cern has to shout to be heard and points to it.<br/><br/><hr/>