Echo nods towards Skobeloff. "You are correct," she says. "Have you perhaps encountered this creature yourself?" She then turns her head towards Alpin, who has been standing quietly beside Stargaze during this conversation. "But our friend Alpin can tell you far more than I can. After all, it was the brownies who first encountered this being, which is how they ended up in their current state."

"Erm, yes," Alpin says, fidgetting slightly as he speaks. "We found this, erm, 'person' a little over two, maybe three weeks ago. They crash-landed near our village, fell clean out of the sky." He motions towards the drakes. "We thought, erm, it was one yours. A dragon, black dragon." He points towards Fellwing. "Like you! But also not like you, it's hard to describe. Like, their scales were dark, almost like darker than black, but also kind of see-through, like they were there but also not there at the same time." He shakes his head. "No one else seemed to notice that there was anything wrong with them, but they gave me the shivers. Anyway, they were out-cold for a few days, so we were watching over them, hoping they would wake up soon and tell us what had happened. While we were waiting, things started going... weird. Brownies started acting different, getting more snappy with each other. When they finally woke up, it got even worse."