Renegade on Kara The Great Basin Chapter 4 The Confederation

Going on the run from spell casting AIs, dragons and a nearly all powerful state isn't easy, even on a world with an infinite surface.

Someone pulled the lid back up.

Panic flashed for a moment.

People might think they are prepared for the discontinuity, never are. You might know time stops and someone is going to be opening it, yet there for an instant, you are surprised. Roger had read that several times, yet it was different experiencing it.

Yet he had made it. Even what the lid still rising, he knew he was not in any technology zone.

Then the heat hit, and he could only be in the Great Basin, that geographic abnormality that was as yet the hottest place ever found on Kara. He had made it. He was through the Armstrong gate.

“What the hell is going on?”

Roger looked up at the weathered brown man his mage sense told him was little older than he.