At noon that day, a rider enters Obsidian Falls.
He is riding a black horse, and is cloaked entirely in black.
The Elf guards look suspiciously at him as he passes through the gates. But they don't do anything, not even search the horse and rider.
The horseman rides straight into the middle of town, in the Town Square to be precise, where the well sits. He dismounts, and his black cloak billows around him as he stands and calls the village around him.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he cries when he has a full audience, "welcome to the best day of your life!"
He throws back his hood. Underneath he is a pale-skinned young man with several pimples and short greasy black hair. His eyes are a deep blue, streaked with violet.
"Welcome to the traveling antics of Nathan the pyromaniac!" the young man says. "Now I'll need a volunteer from the audience!"
There is silence. Nobody who advertises their profession as "traveling Pyromaniac" is bound to be a good clean person. Finally, a delicate hand is raised into the air.
"You there, young lady," says Nathan the Traveling Pyromaniac. "Come on up!"
Kaylee steps up from the crowd to where Nathan is standing, beaming and holding a flint and steel. "Excellent, excellent," the performer laughs, "and now, with this implement, I shall make this young lady vanish without a trace... then bring her back!"
The crowd cheers, although halfheartedly. Nathan walks around Kaylee, inspecting her with one eye closed and the other bulging open.
"Right," he says finally. "I'll need to calculate this..."
Nathan experimentally sparks the flint and steel. It makes red and blue sparks. He beams. "Brilliant," he whispers, and turns again to the crowd. "Now, I'll need you all to focus on the girl here. Watch this." He brings the flint and steel slowly closer to her shoulder. Then he strikes it.
What happens next is a flash of white, and then Kaylee is gone. A hole has been torn in space in the place where she had stood. Strange swirling mystical patterns make up the interior, and purple sparks surround the borders. Nathan begins to grow taller, his legs thicker. For a moment, his muzzle extends and the beginnings of wings sprout from his shoulderblades. Then he is gone and the portal contracts into nothing.
Derek, watching from the crowd, knows that Kaylee has been taken to the Nether. He leaps to his feet.
"The Ender Dragon has taken her to the Nether!" he exclaims. "Double, we need to do something!"
Then he realizes that Double is no longer by his side.
"Double?"