Draiss paused for a drink, and paid in coinage from before Ragnarok for a drink, seeing if that got any reaction. He finished his drink, and then headed toward the large plaza. The fact that the temples had been torn down made him shake his head, before approaching what appeared to be main entrance, ignoring the taints as these ones seemed to be both stable and controlled, rather than the rampaging ones he had been forced time and time again to put down before his unexpected and unplanned sojourn into the portal to no-where and no-when. He looked around, idly curious as to how they would react to the twenty foot long, twelve foot wide flying armored transport that was his command center, before deciding to head in and find out from the person in charge.<br/><br/>He stepped into the cleared area around the portal plaza, the two infiltrators stepping out of the shadows around him, their armor flowing like water back to the configuration that they had had before that charge during Ragnarok, a large, glowing red optic in the center of their helms, these two with nearly full circle of smaller optics around the main one.<br/><br/>He walked forward, idly flexing his hands, before suddenly he was no longer in the portal plaza, but stepping into a war torn one, burning tanks, civilian transports, and gnawed upon, burnt corpses everywhere. He felt sluggish, his head slowly casting one way, and then another, recognizing where he was. Ithyr 12, in the plaza in front of the governor's palace on the city planet, where he and two basic line squads had suddenly been cut off and surrounded by hundreds of screaming, gibbering chaos daemons. He reached back, trying to get his weapon free, as the first daemons came around the corners in front of them. His head turned to order the two squads to entrench near the two burning tanks, when one of the infiltrators grabbed his arm. "Sir, come back, this is reality."<br/><br/>The flashback dissolved like fog in the sun, and he shuddered, realizing he was even worse than he had feared. He took a couple deep breaths, before nodding in thanks to the unit, and heading to the most powerful taint he could sense, heading into the portal structure if allowed.