The drug wore off Theta fast, zombies being much immune to poisons of any kind. He milled around inside the pyramid collecting what useful items he could, not daring to leave the shadowy interior for fear of the sun. All he found in his day was a disk, some skins of thick mushroom soup and a peculiar red powder. He disabled the machine that the man had been working on and made a makeshift pack for his meagre belongings as he headed to the exit of the pyramid.
As night fell, Theta stepped out of the dark embrace of the cool shadows and looked up to see the geoglyph in the sky, but now he realised it wasn't a marking, but a floating structure, or number of structures held aloft by starstone. Theta couldn't think of how to get up there, he climbed till midnight on a mountain that was close to the village, but no luck. Theta knew the sunlight would hurt him, so he had to get to the safety of the village. Theta struggled around, trying to find a way to reach the lofty houses, and stumbled upon a cave with a ceiling made of water, suspended by ancient tablets. He found a work bench and furnace in the cave.
When he looked up through the water, he could see an opening in the stone work below the village, and figured that this pool must be how the villagers got down safely from the giant stone place. Theta decided to wait in the cave, and as morning ascended, he was suddenly roused from a pitiful slumber by a human splashing down into the cave.
"Wait, please! I need shelter sir!" snorted Theta, as he quickly took in the man's blue and yellow armoured attire and a scar over his right eye.
"Hang on, you're zombiefied", said the human in a gruff and manly voice
"Zombiefied I may be, but doust that mean I am not worth saving?"
"I know a cure for the infectivity of the zombie virus, but the ingredients are expensive" said the human
"So I won't infect others?" Theta said, on his knees thanking the human.
"No, but I need a type of red powder, and a mixture of 2 powerful enzymes" recanted the human knowingly.
Theta took the red dust out of his makeshift pack, as well as a skin of soup, and asked if these would do. The human said that they would, and that if Theta paid him, he would mix the antidote and let him have shelter that in the town.
"Will this do?" Theta asked, taking the disk out of his pack, and the human agreed with most enthusiasm and mixed the potion.
"Here, drink it in sips" said the human as he handed Theta the potion. Who took it and sipped slowly, he told the man of his experiences, his village, and of Nex Stilus.
"Him, he's been dead for ever! 500 years at least! The world has changed since you were last alive then!" yelled the human in surprise.
A thought struck Theta, he didn't even know this person, and said so, to this the stranger replied.
"I am Hexxblade, mayor of sky village."
