"Arjun and Aryav have apparently returned from Glassfay. They are gold-category, but Arjun has the aura strength of a sapphire-category." Bob asked where they were. "Ipigal."

"What!" Bob roared. He'd have to cross the great swamp ocean.

He just remembered an ad he'd seen: There was a barge leaving for Ipigal in a day. He decided he'd go on the barge. It would take a week. He packed up his things at home, and flew to Port Kalblack, the place the barge was leaving from.

He bought tickets to the luxury class, and soon, he was on his way.

***

I went in. Society officials herded us to a line of gold-categories signing up in Ipigal. After a few minutes, we were at the front.

"Who's first?" asked the official.

"We are part of a team." I said. "My name is Arjun Singh." Aryav took my lead, and said, "Aryav Kumar."

We started the registration process. They told us Bob would be notified as soon as he came back from his contract, where he would likely get his final power, Immutable Bone, to gold-category.

We went to the rainbow house, which I had infused with a few spatial constructs, and started working on a proper team reunion, as the estimate for Bob to reach Ipigal was eight days.