Moments after Guiden had left the room, he reappeared.
“We’re ready for the suits,” he said, and promptly disappeared through the portal once more.
Kavaraa conjured up a portal and grabbed the needed amount of suits, and Kerhet, Kavaraa, Alerakshar, and Sar went to see the assembled troops.
It was an amazing sight: one hundred elven warlocks sitting double on fifty dragons. Each of the elven warlocks were handed an Agilinso suit and promptly put it on. Each of the fifty dragon handlers put an Agilinso suit on their dragon. At Guiden’s command, the warlocks and their dragons disappeared. Another command was given, and the dragons began to hover. Although Sar could not see them, he felt the wind generated by their wings. Kinket gave a third and final command, and the dragons zoomed into a portal.
“Do we get to watch?” asked Sar.
“Why yes,” said Kavaraa, “yes we do.” Kavaraa opened a portal to his workshop. He powered up one of his computers, opened video feeds from each of the suits, and selected sixteen at random, loading them into a grid.
“Let’s see what happens,” he said.
The cameras on the Agilinso suits could see through their own invisibility, which helped Sar see what was happening.
“We used to do these magical mind indexings all the time, until Kavaraa made the mind machine,” explained Guiden, “But we’ve never done a human before — that I can remember.”
The dragons flew swiftly, so high up that they could have been mistaken for birds, had they been visible. They arrived to their destination within three minutes.
Blue and purple waves of magic began to pour from the warlocks’ hands. As Guiden explained later, the blue waves were to index their minds, while the purple ones were to erase Joplin and Akita’s memories of the mind indexing. Soon, Joplin and Akita were wrapped in cocoons of magic.
“Strange,” mumbled Kavaraa, “Joplin has a very large brain capacity.”
“Could she be an elf?” Alerakshar was afraid.
“No, it’s smaller than an elf’s, but larger than what a human’s usually is at her age.”
“Akita seems to have been felatred,” commented Kerhet, “or at least hypnotized.”
“This is all very strange,” said Alerakshar, “there may be stronger forces than we thought at work here.”
“We’ll have to wait for the rest of the index to be completed before we know what’s happening,” said Guiden.
