The day passes as you get ready for the job. Mid afternoon, Glitch reappears as promised. "Are you ready? Hold hands, please!" It takes Tedras and Siobhan's hands, and waits for the others to make a circle. Once you're all ready, one of its mechanical wings comes forward to press a button on its body, and suddenly the world vanishes.

For a moment, you're suspended in pearly grey fog, alone, with no points of reference. Before you can begin to panic, however, you find yourself still holding your coworker's hands, standing in a ring on a grassy plain.

The sky overhead a bright no-colour, with no sun or other source of the brightness. Underfoot is a soft, dark orange grass. A few unfamiliar flowers and bushes dot the plane. A few miles away, a colossal spire of rock rises into the sky, its peak lost in clouds.

Suddenly a distant horn blares, and you see a column of smoke on the horizon. "Good! Here it comes, right on time!" Glitch proclaims.

A locomotive hurtles across the sky towards you, laying down magical tracks before it. As it draws near, you can see clockwork limbs disassembling the tracks behind the train and passing them forward, so the locomotive can lay down new tracks in front of itself.

As the train descends to grown level, its horn blares once more. It swerves away from you, coming to a gradual stop until its caboose is a short distance away, pointing in your direction.

"Got your tickets?" asks Glitch. "Excellent! Now go. Show your tickets to the modron in the caboose and it will punch them. This is where I leave you. I will see you at the station in Mechanus. Farewell, friends!" And he pushes the button and vanishes again.

As you approach the caboose, you can see that it doubles as a train station. Inside is a booth containing a duodrone attendant with a built-in ticket puncher. "Step up, step up! Insert your ticket to be punched!"

Spoiler: the train
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Spoiler: duodrone
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