Stripetail followed her into the dilapadated building.. She gestured and a pair of laterns lit themselvesabove a table as both of them seated themselves in rickety old chairs...she gestured again and a medium-sized hourglass appeared out of nowhere on the table. inside were the bluest sands Stripetail had ever seen, they looked more like snow than sand... the preistess noticed him looking at it, and smiled a little. "This , my wizard friend" She said clearly, " is my Snowglass.when the snowglass runs out, anyone who has interfered with the examinatoion in any way, shape or form, is punished by being sent directly to Plana Icia. The planet is solid ice, and it is so cold there that no technology or magic will work there.. temperatres range from near 400 below zero to near absolute zero at the poles. The only inhabitable area is a small castle near the equator. Your friend should consider himself lucky, a billion years ago we would have executed him on the spot, but we decided to abandon that method.." she was obvioiusly still angry and it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who she meant by her words..
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You will not harm my friend Wayne" Stripetail said sternly. The priestess gave him an acidic look as she arose from her chair "He has interfered in your examination, and must be punished for it.. ignorance is no excuse...Everything has been warped now... thanks to him..." She paced to and fro, muttering to herself. "The utter arrogance of that Dinoton! Not even the slightest hint of an apology for what he has done! He will be shown humility...the hard way... Too much in love with technology...technology in and of itself cannot solve every problem...Catching up to us? The fool! They have a LONG way to go before they can even start comparing themselves to us. We have had technology for millions of years, that they are only discovering now, and think they re-invented the wheel by finding it.." She gestured a third time and the hourglass turned over and the snow inside began to fall towards the empty end. "Here is where you come in..' She said looking at Stripetail meaningfully. "In 3 days this hourglass will run out.. as soon as it does, Para and anyone with him at the time will be sent to Plana Icia. They will not be able to leave until the 3 tests are completed. You will have to complete the tests sucessfully, and ask for thier release,otherwise the Dragon lord and anyone else with him.. will spend the rest of thier lives there, in that frozen purgatory..." There was a look in her eyes that troubled Stripetail deeply, she seemed to be enjoying that vision. "I am well aware of the scope of your magical powers, you are the very last of the great wizards, those whose powers could match my kind's. Unfortunately for the Dinoton, your powers don't work here, so you can't stop me from punishing him." She smiled with satifaction.
