Kimmi-Ka and Jokel leapt onto a single bar stool, waiting with boundless glee as they stared at the sweets section of the cafe's menu. Zalroth rubbed the inside of his right ear and mentally sighed as he closed his eyes.

Zalroth felt his body shuttered as the warmth of the ambient air seemed to evaporate and completely disappear. Zalroth attempted to breathe in, but his chest tensed up from the viscous/almost solid atmosphere entering his lungs. Zalroth groaned unamusedly as he breathed out the viscous air in multiple puffs.

Zalroth opened his eyes and proceeded to be greeted by the inside of transparent azure blue crystal featureless face of Ela, in her true form. Zalroth gave Ela a head tilt, and they immediately backed up from Zalroth, allowing Zalroth to see Ela's full crystal body.

"Bit close weren't you? I would have died if I was someone who needs to breathe". Ela repeatedly bowed in the air to Zalroth as her movements made twinkle noises. Ela raised her head and an azure-coloured wisp appeared next to her head which took on the appearance of an emoticon [ :s ].

"Ela apologises; you must understand warping things outside of reality has some complications," Ela stated as the wisp emoticon took on the form of XD. Zalroth smirked at seeing the wisp make the XD emoticon before he peered around at his void-like lack of surroundings.

Zalroth fully turned around before spotting the planet dwarfing pale glowing cyan crystalline tree with brightly glowing cyan leaves and large sprawling tree roots spreading out in every direction. Zalroth swayed his head from side to side and noticed the cluster of spaced-out stars surrounding the tree from a vast distance in the arrangement of a sphere.

"And why have you taken me out of... everything that is?" Zalroth asked smugly as he placed his hand on his chin and grinned at seeing everything.

"Ela needs you to fend off the Aether Being," Ela stated.

"Another one... huh? Wait, don't you mean an Aethe..." Zalroth remarked before he stumbled over his words as he turned around and briefly raised his head to look up at the colossal construct of made entirely out of azure gems. The construct's form was an ever-state-shifting complex of intersecting geometric shapes which floated away from its large-building-sized core; the core is an opaque octahedron-shaped azure gem with glowing callous cyan eyes on the centres of each of its faces.

"That's a big Heathen," Zalroth remarked half-heartedly as he rolled his shoulder.

"It's because it's-" Ela managed to say before Zalroth conjured a cyan magic barrier beneath his feet and kicked off it to launch himself at the Aether Being, leaving Ela silently by herself with her wisp making a [ >:( ] shape.