After a brief but enlightening meal with Doctor Eli Zerachiel, Tasha beds down to get some rest for the next day's mission. All proceeds well as she ascends to 50,000 feet and begins the spiral pattrn that will calibrate the sensors, when a strange glimmer confuses the sensors and Tasha as well. Basic analysis and observation proves inconclusive, so Tasha orders her machine to break from her mission and pursue the glimmer. Active scanning rveals it to be more than ice crystals or a weather ballon, making it a singular oddity: very few machines could reach this altitude. What's worse, is that it then vanishes! Perplexed and qith her interest piqued, Tasha heads after the unknown object. p As minutes pass by, Tasha finds her machine far away from all known territory and rapidly approaching a strange volcanic landscape. As the machine reaches the center of the volcanic region, her machine spots a strange – and monstrously sized – snail like creature of shell and tentacle. It's seconds later that a second, then third appear – and the last blots out the sky, larger than any sky island! Even as she struggles with what she sees, the sky shifts in to a vision in to the heart of a tempest. Surrounded by a raging storm, the disk-like monstrosity is at odds with reality, but Tasha doesn't need to guess at what she has just stumbled in to: Forbidden Zone! Stunned and unable to act, the Melchior's automated procedures save her and escape. Unable to cope, nor stand the crushing feeling of confinement her near-death experience impressed upon her, Tasha lands her vessel and stumbles out in to the watches.