Game Of Trickery

In complete silence, an uneven, rough-coated cylinder came closer. It had an unusual shape and texture that felt both familiar and out of place and time: the bark was rough and ashen from a charring fire, and it was shaped like a collapsed, branchless tree trunk. A small region of blue light appeared as it got closer—was that a lingering flame from the blaze? -- lit up the top of the form just past its center. Its growing aft was surrounded in the pitch-blackness of space by yellow light haloes that most likely came from inside the cylinder as if embers still burned with molten yellow-white heat inside the stubbed remains of roots that had once supported and fed the huge tree.

So, this is one part of their base? It looks like a vehicle, a huge vehicle that's as large as a town. Hannah thinks.

She didn't expect to be brought here. This is different from where she went the last time. In her expectation, this is where they keep Talyn.

There was not even a reaction when Hannah stepped i