“Lord Absalom . . . “

Silence.

“Lord Absalom . . .”

“Yes?”

“There. . . Long range scanners  indicate that . . . “

The Lord Inquisitor faced the officer who was struggling to speak, “Out with it.”

“My Lord, we are detecting long-wave gamma energy on the planet below.”

Lord Inquisitor Absalom, a man who feared little, feared now. His gazed returned to the view screen of the planet below him. His voice husky, a slight warble in the normally deep pitch. “Prepare the fleet for evasive maneuvers.”

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THRUM

The energy from the vast induction field once again flowed into the man who had created it, fueling his aesr as he watched with grim humor the man known as Fury rise into the air.  Using the electromagnetic energies flowing around him as an invisible field, Skallagrim also rose with a quiet grace. Using the magnetic field of the planet, corralling the wildly fluctuating local field to his needs, the Dreamer felt a surge as the field lifted him. 

The Dark shield throbbed slowly, with a disturbingly familiar resonance, that of a heartbeat. The glowing sword also pulsed and flared as the  gamma energies sought release from the incredible forces containing it.  

Silently the Dreamer ascended, his gaze never leaving that of the man coming towards him. The breeze shifted and billowed the cloak draping across Skallagrim’s back.  The galdhr tendrils of energy slowly slipped from the shield, falling towards the ground, before seeping into the loamy earth, like some hellish water.

Metal rattled and clanked as the pull of the EM field  cascaded over it. With a thought the Dreamer reached out, manipulating the field, weaving the warped and altered inherent magnetic field of the planet with his own vast energies, securing anchors. Along the ground small flashes of energy flickered and flared, a deep warbbling of white noise slowly began to fill the air, cyclicing through the complex range of frequencies, those hearable and not. The cacophony of sound rose and and fell creating an eerie wail similar to that of the mythic bean sith of a small island on a planet called Earth.