Felix looks through the portal. A vast frozen space extending as far the eye can see.

"I... saw portals to that same place in my dream as well."

"Me too..."

Suddenly, the portals around them wink out... and are replaced by six portals, trapping them in a cube.

"That... pretty much prevents us from flying out."

"Then we don't," Dayo huffs again, flying through one of them.

And the portals close as soon as they are through.

There is nothing but pale ice going on and on in all directions.

"The... the sky is weird. It shouldn't- it's hard to explain, but it shouldn't be like this."

The sky looks foggy-blue, but not otherwise weird.

"Got a direction for me or do I just fly at random?"

"I don't know... this dimension is much smaller than the rest? And-"

A portal opens near them, but instead of standing upright it's horizontal and parallel to the ground. Then another opens, and another. They form a straight line of six portals and then two more portals open to the left and right of the second-to-last portal. Then yet another two portals open aligned to the third-to-last portal but further away. It's very obviously a shape...

"Someone's drawing a fucking arrow with portals," she growls. "Grand. Guess we go in that direction, then."

The portals vanish when they get too close. But their destination becomes pretty obvious soon enough. The other large portal arrow was not necessary. The cluster of floating rocks up ahead is literally the only feature around.

Except maybe for the giant black sea serpent things. They dig through the ice very easily and snap jaws at them, but the group and the rocks are far too high to be reached by the creatures.

The floating rocks are large, boulders the size of a small house each. Six in total... featureless except one of them has... something... a statue?

Sure statue why not because her day couldn't get any fucking weirder.

Is there enough space for the fuckoff huge dragon to land?

Plenty. As they get closer it becomes obvious the statue is surrounded by a fountain of sorts, simple and circular. The entire thing is made from the same stone as the rock.

Felix hops off suddenly. He takes a look at the statue and takes a step back. He looks at the fountain and his confusion doubles.

The stone statue's face is the same as Felix's, but the wings are like Fenris'.

And there is a red bubble inside the fountain and inside it there is something that could be a fetus of some kind.

Jessica hops down and looks at it. "What the fuck."

Dayo merely cranes her neck to get a better view. "My thoughts exactly."

"Maybe it's a grave?"

Another portal arrow shows up nearby. The portals are smaller than average, but they are not that great for signals. This one points to the next floating rock, which happens to be floating close enough to make it easy to walk over.

Or hop over, if you happen to be a fuckoff huge dragon. She gets Victor down first, though.

The fountain has a spring, burbling water that runs away in a rivulet and down off the rock. The arrow appears to be pointing at the spring or at least at the water.

"'Nother fountain," she calls. And because of dragon psychology, she laps some water up from it.

The water is very refreshing, almost delicious. It seems to reach deep into her fiery being and quench her soul.

Also, she suddenly finds herself the possessor of a few new senses and her previous senses get an edge. Which isn't all that helpful when she is suddenly experiencing a twisting pain in her wings, which appear to be cut a thousand times. From the inside. Her awareness expands outwards and she can feel the sky: air pressure, movement, temperature, humidity and electric charge are obvious like colors in a painting. And she gets that there is something wrong with the sky here, it's... too still.

Also, her wings are now covered in red and black feathers and the floating rock is under her command.

"Well, guess I got new powers again or something," she laughs.

"You're a skymage."

And she can tell that Felix is one too. There is a bubble of magically controlled air around him.

"Skymage dragon, that's one for the books. Come here, Jessica, drink from it."

"Um... Dayo... Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're acting freaky."

"It's the dragon psychology, I told you."

"That's just words."

She sighs. "It's complicated. When I shift I get the psychology of whatever I shift into, more and more over time. I don't know what a real dragon's psychology would be like because they don't exist and I don't want to go all the way into full dragon."