The large lake was big enough so Pierce could not see to the other side even with the aid of magic. It was a high water above the normal sea level by quiet a bit and the air was crisp, clean mountain air around her the lake was surprisingly warm in some places a perpetual mist hanging over the lake witch gave it an early mystical appearance<br/><br/>As Pierce gazed focusing her eyes and mind she could see glimpses of just the bare outlines of something solid in the mists, an island at a sudden shift in the wind her eyes caught the dome of a building made from something black and solid.<br/><br/>Down on this side of the lake her eyes caught sight of a few pillars rammed into the beach of the lake, two small wooden boats danced on the water both looking old and unused one was slightly sunk while the other looked better but not by much. If she would come closer she could make out the outlines of a third that had sunk.<br/><br/>The area around the lake was an odd place, on the way up hear the terrain had turned rocky with only a few plants hear and their but in the basin of the lake their was rich soil again full of odd plants that should be only able to grow in much warmer parts of the world. Behind her even now the light strangely clean forest swayed and danced with a multitude of scents of flowers in bloom of things that should not be their or even bloom in the early winter as it was down in the flatlands<br/>