Ral - Planeswalker spark ignites

          "I . . ." Elias shook his head, his eyes filling with tears. "What was I supposed to do, Ral? You're never even here and I just got . . . lonely, and . . ." His face screwed up into a rage. "What's wrong with you? Are you drunk?"

          "I think he's hurt," the other man said. "Is that blood?"

          Elias gasped, but Ral was no longer listening. Something inside him had given way, some primal instinct to get away, as far away as he could manage. And, it turned out, that was very far indeed. A spark blazed to life, ripping a hole in the world, and in an instant Ral Zarek was gone.

***

          Ral remembered being torn into pieces so small as to be invisible, flowing through a sea of strange energies and twisted space, and reassembled bit by agonizing bit.

          He opened his eyes and found himself face-down on a sewer grate.

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The Gathering Storm, Chapter 8,11