@unisol_gr44 The sphere is made of a smooth metal, jet black, though now it shines with a white-blue light. The object pulses with energy, sending Ard's arm recoiling backwards, and sending a shockwave forwards into Verena's chest, painfully knocking her to the side.
As the two look up and recover, they see a portal on the shores of the lake, blue light on the edges of unknowable blackness.
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As they look at it, Ard, Verena and Abigail all feel themselves being pulled towards the portal, as if it were a magnet, and they made out of metal.