"Yes," Skandra said pedantically. "No idea, no idea, and fine."
In truth he wasn't sure how much farther he could have carried her. They were both suffering from the effects of whatever the hell they'd traveled from, even if he was faring better than her. Shantar had said they might be split, hadn't he? And he wanted them all to look for something. Skandra wasn't sure what the hell he was supposed to be looking for in the first place. Shantar had taken too long figuring out where they hell they were and what the hell they were supposed to do. Although - if this was like the first time, why had there been no supposedly ancient being to guide him to the right place? A fellow in blue robes had been there, hadn't he? Talking as though he knew all the secrets of the universe. Skandra was lowering her gently to the ground, feet first, and trying to remember what he could about that first trip.
This was not the Empyrean. That much he could tell just by looking. Unless they were in a different part of it?
"Fucking Shantar," the Immortal muttered.
That was when he saw it. Peering through those stones of glass, down but not too far, Skandra could see it. It looked like a hand. Digging was going to take forever - but it had to be a hand, didn't it? A human hand. The light in the sky was orange, where it cracked the clouds of silver and gray. This did not make a searching gaze any more capable of penetrating the haze all these stones became. Skandra was obliged then to fall to his knees, face coming closer to those glass stones. Yes, there was an arm down there, nearly invisible, and that led to -- the sight of it was revolting. Most of it was an Elvish head, fixed in an expression of horror.
One of the glass stones was embedded in its head. Blood was leaking out, and he could see it even from this distance. Yet there was nothing could be done about it now. The film of death wasn't visible on the fellow's eyes - yet Skandra felt fairly fucking certain that having a stone embedded in your skull was not going to have a net positive effect on your health.