[u][b]Ethan[/b][/u]

'You must awaken' The voice was odd, a mixture of something that he had only heard in his imagination and a reality. It only spoke in his mind, but it didn't seem like he was talking to himself. 'Wake up' The voice in his mind spoke again, but he shrugged it off, still partially in the grips of whatever strange fever dream had  conjured the strange goddess into his mind. 

"Wake up" The voice was different this time, actually sounding in his ears and it was then that Ethan finally opened his eyes. To his surprise, against a backdrop of strange glowing lines he saw a visage he had never expected to see, something that had sprung full blown from the same corner of his mind that had spawned the costume he was still wearing. A woman stood beside the open pod, looking down on him with brilliantly luminescent silver eyes. 

He sat up, taking a brief moment to look around the room as he did so, seeing other open pods where people were beginning to stir as well. "What is going on?" His initial response was far from eloquent, but that was excusable, he had been visited by a strange apparition in his dreams, awoken in a strange world, and had one of his characters from a story standing beside him. 

"I don't know," The woman's voice was as beautiful as her appearance, a rich and flowing sound even as a similar expression of confusion appeared on her own face. "But we need to find out." A hand extended and he took it, letting her help him to his feet before he looked around once more, trying to take it all in.