All right, just wondering.
I said I'd have an update today, so here it is.

"I heard right," Crystal said nervously. "We're going to Hellantra."
"Oh, come on, Crystal," Defalcon said. "You're the one who can lower her body temperature. Don't get so worried."
"I'm not worried for me," she said. "Hellantra is dangerous anyway. Or haven't any of you been there before?"
Copper glanced at Claw. "We have. Four years ago."
"I've been there," KRSplat said. Radium nodded.
"To tell the truth, I've never had the urge to go," Defalcon admitted. Kaz agreed.
"Kovu never had reason."
Crystal scowled. "I've never been there. Acid?"
"I live on Carrotus," he replied. "Why would I want to go to Hellantra?"
"Good point," Electrik agreed. "Nobody in their right mind goes to Hellantra."
"Well, I always said we were crazy," Claw said. "Relax. It's not that bad."
"He's right," Copper agreed. "It sounds worse than it is."
"It's probably better than Keenrei," Kaz said with a shiver.
"It's the extreme opposite, Kaz."
"Oh. Well, that's okay then."
Radium sighed, slightly exasperated. "Are we going to keep talking, or are we going to suit action to words?"
"Take it easy, Rad," Copper said. "We're moving."
"Very slowly," Acid finished, and grinned when she glared at him. "It's true. If we went any slower we'd be going backwards."
"That's not true and you know it."
"Is so."
"Is not."
"Prove it."
"Fine. Guys, move." She picked up the pace, glancing back over her shoulder at Acid, who was looking dismayed.
"This isn't proving it!"
"I know. That'd take too much time. I'll show you on the ship."
"You'd better."
"I will. I know exactly how fast we were going, too."
"I just can't win, can I?"
"You did back there. Did a good job too, if I may say so myself."
"That was an anomaly," Electrik teased.
"I hope not. If one of those demons on Hellantra come after you, you want to win."
"I forget," Kaz complained. "Is Hellantra the place with the dogs and ravens or the place with the lava and demons?"
"Lava and demons," Copper said. "The other is Deseka."
"I hate Deseka," Acid said matter-of-factly. "Deseka and I just don't mix."
"Everyone has a least favorite world," Copper said absently.
"Mine is definitely Carrotus," Defalcon said. "Too boring. What's yours, Copper?"
"Haven't found it yet," she said. "When I do I'll let you know."
"What's yours then, Claw?"
"Shebele," Claw said, an odd look passing over his face. "In the Doremak Corridor."
"I've never been there," Defalcon said. "Never heard of it, in fact."
"You wouldn't," Claw said. "It's long gone."
"I was there," Radium agreed. "It was a major power source for Chaos Mages for the longest time. Just as well it's gone, though. A lot of people got killed because of the Doremak Corridor."
"What was it like?"
"The Corridor? It was a row of systems with warped planets or stars or something. Shebele was a planet ... constantly changing, no pattern, completely random," Claw said. "Imagine standing on solid ground and suddenly having it become a ravine or the middle of the sea ... I saw one fall. She had no warning - well, none of us did - and her reflexes weren't fast enough. She caught herself halfway down the ravine and started climbing ... and then the ravine wasn't there any more, just a featureless plain."
"She died?"
"I assume she did. Never saw her again."
"Why would you go there in the first place?" Crystal asked. Claw shrugged.
"It was a test. Only two of us made it off that place, I was one of them. The rest didn't survive."
"So why isn't it there any more?"
"No one knows," Radium said quietly. "One day it wasn't there. The whole Corridor vanished."
"Weird," Acid said.
"Can we change the subject now?" Electrik asked plaintively.


Shebele sounds worse than Shador ever did ... *shudders*