[i]Jake....Susannah...Ka-tet...[/i]

The words floated ephemerally through the sleeping mind of the gunslinger. A restless sleep has overtaken him this night, but only after a long day of marching with his party, his ka-tet, dusk til' dawn. They walked the path of the bear reverse, in order to find what they were looking for. This night, no matter how ordinary it seemed, was destined to be different. Radiant rays shined warmly onto Roland's face; the light warmed his skin as he lay upon a patch of lush green grass. 
 
Roland's eyes forced themselves open as his subconscious mind warned him of his foreign environment. His piercing blue eyes darted around his field of vision, revealing only the sky to him. Last he checked, he was sleeping under a tree-line with Jake, Eddie, and Susannah whom, upon sitting up to scan around him, he discovered were no longer present. The old gunslinger immediately performed a roll to a crouch from his prone position as deftly as any adept acrobat could. He would look up to see the powerful form of a starship lowering itself to the ground. From the bottom of the ship was lowered a tall figure clad in an impressive, and alien to Roland's eyes, suit of armor. A few feet away from the landed ship was another figure. A dark haired man who appeared to be armed with a sword much too large to perform in any kind of balanced duel. Today was already shaping up to be strange, and he had been awake for less than 2 minutes. 
 
	Suddenly aware that he had been in the open among possible adversaries for a second too long, Roland leaped horizontally as far as he could to the direction of the forest border where a group of bushes was situated. He would stretch his body out lengthwise and land into a deft roll as to place himself in the thickness of said bushes. From cover he would observe the two strange beings hoping that they had not seen him yet. Roland longed to know how he was taken from his ka-tet and where the hell he was, but he had a feeling Ka had brought him here for a reason, and all gunslingers knew that Ka was not to be questioned much.