You wake to chaos. A confusion of light and heat and smoke… Fire! Your head is pounding. You must have hit it and blacked out, but you aren’t sure how you got here… or what on Vertumna is happening. There’s something important you need to remember… Your stomach lurches as the floor crumbles beneath your feet, then collapses! Your body aches and your eyes burn from the smoke. A figure appears through the flames. It’s your friend! Your…friend? Wait… why can’t you remember her name? She’s gesturing and shouting at you, but all you hear is a ringing in your ears. “What’s going on??” You try to speak, but the words come out jumbled. Your throat seizes around a lungful of choking smoke, and you feel dizzy and confused. Your friend pulls you out of the rubble. She throws your arm over her shoulder and half-drags you towards the door. Through it, you see a deep, eerie twilight - dark blue and cold against the heat of the fire around you. Glow season… Glowing eyes! You shake your head to clear your vision. Is that… some kind of dog, like from Earth? The creature howls and lunges! Its jaws open…