"I don't know." Alysis said. "I'm still trying to figure out if all that jargon was supposed to mean something, or if he had a stroke mid-speech. For a moment it sounded like he was pairing the four classical elements with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but he left out Pestilence. But I guess there no harm in-" Alysis was cut off when someone rammed into her, knocking her into Robert. The four identical men that followed him and his date were more careful, stepping around her.
"Pardon me." the man said, almost as an afterthought, as he walked away.
Mark released the feisty wife's arm as he came up to the totems. He leaned towards the earth totem, observing it curiously.