I sure as hell hope so.

I glanced around nervously. The house wasn't quiet, but it wasn't loud either. There were gentle whirring noises and ticking things all over the place, not enough to be distracting, but enough to drive off the unnerving quiet that would surely drown this place otherwise. The chairs and benches that were set throughout the main foyer were made of velvet and what looked life gold, but surely this Ral couldn't be that rich, could he?

I looked down at Mel, saw her looking at me expectantly as my moment of silence lapsed into several seconds. She gave me knowing smile and took a step towards me.

"I don't know what rock you've been living under, but it must have been pretty thick, because I can tell you aren't from around here. Maybe you're Azorius or Boros? Either way, I can tell this all new, so be honest with me stud, are you ready?"

I took a deep breath as I looked into her eyes. I couldn't break into her head, but I had never needed that power to trust people back on Earth, surely I could trust her now. The way she mind controlled those elves, she could have just done that to me and been done with it, but instead she... holy shit, I just had a threesome.

I shook the thought out of my head, this was no time to be thinking about that. Mel was nice and helped me when she could have very easily harmed me, I could trust her.

" I sure as hell hope so" I said looking up at the stairs. "Let's just do this" I began walking towards the stairs exuding a confidence I didn't really have.

Mel laughed behind me, "alright stud, but you might want to follow me, he's downstairs."

When I turned she was walking right past to a door set in between the duel flights of stairs that swept up to the second floor. I turned almost as red as the walls and followed her.

"Don't sweat it, if anything, confidence is sexy" she punctuated her sentence by lightly bumping her ass against my crotch.

I bit my lip as I imagined what might have happened in that alley if I had decided I needed more "convincing." Mel threw a playful wink over her shoulder as if she knew what I was thinking.

Don't worry stud, I usually know what men are thinking, I don't need to read your mind to know what you want.

I breathed deeply as I tried to quell my unruly thoughts and get myself ready to meet Ral, the man who would determine my immediate future.

When the door opened, the first thing I noticed was the sound. The foyer had a comfortable amount of background noise, but this was loud. There were grinding noises, cracking noises, things breaking, large rumbles, and bangs throughout all of it. The second thing I noticed was the flight of metal stairs flanked by brass railings, beyond those and down, however, was a large laboratory. There were small fires of various colors lighting up the room, lightning bouncing around between several coils, strange gelatinous masses moving as... things took notes on them. The people within the lab were just as strange as the experiments themselves. There were skinny scaled people with elongated snouts, some had blue skin like Sedva, some others had blue skin but were more insubstantial. What dominated half the room, however, was a large glass chamber with multi colored bolts of lightning exploding throughout it. The bolts slammed into the glass and metal of the chamber, but everything held, no matter how loud the impact was. There were various tubes in there, the purpose of which I doubt I would ever know, pipes, some valves, crystals, wires. It looked like a bit like the inside of a very large, steampunk, and magical computer. After a second, I noticed a man in there.

He had black hair shot through with streaks of grey. On his back sat a large brass contraption that seemed to either attract or shoot out lots of lightning, it was difficult to tell which direction it was moving, it was too chaotic in there. The contraption was connected to a series of small pipes that were connected to devices on his chest, right wrist, and belt. The clothes he wore underneath the strange devices were blue, with a red scarf, sash, and trim. He had a satisfied smile on his face, as if the bolts of lightning that bounced off of him and lit him up like a Christmas tree were making him feel good.

That wouldn't be the weirdest part of today.

"That's Ral Zarek, our leader" Mel said over the din of the lab.

As if he heard his name, he looked up at Mel and I through the glass and smiled.

With a flick of his wrist, the lightning died down and he walked towards an entrance on the other side of the lightning chamber. I could just make him out talking to a tall skinny, almost birdlike, creature on the other side for a second before he began to walk towards us.

"Alright stud, let's see how you interact with people who haven't sucked your cock."