Someone was prodding me. I had survived - for this I was thankful. I openned me eyes half expecting it to be Aurthur, but it was a stranger. I was still on Tethys.

My neck and head ached horribly. I was battered and exhausted, but I'd recover.

Nephew of a moonman? It was hard to swallow (no really - my neck was killing me).

There was that "Amber" again. It seemed to have a ring to it. Korvan had called me Simon of Amber. Maybe there was something to it. I asked Merlin about it and he began to explain, but before we went any further I asked Merlin if he would mind if I cast a harmless spell on him. He agreed and I cast Conduit of the Emotions. Merlin operated basically from noble motives, though he was a bit roguish. He genuinely liked me so far, but had killed Korvan more because he personally hated him than to save me.

Merlin told me that the man who attacked me was from Logres and he used the power of Logres to create all those magical forces and to travel from Fallingham to this place, Chaos. Evidently Logres was not the same city I was familiar with, we were not on Tethys, and most importantly I would be powerless against Logres until I "walked the pattern of Amber." I told him that my course of action was clear. I wanted to walk to pattern as soon as possible.

He pulled out a card and was talking to someone through it. Since the unusual was usual here in Chaos I was not surprised when the person Merlin was talking to stepped through the card and out into our presence. He introduced himself as Bleys. He was not the same Blaise I knew from Cambridge. Was nothing the same here? Bleys explained Logrus (not Logres) and Pattern to me as such:

It didn't sound as powerful as the full three dimensional Logrus, but if this Pattern could ward off other Logrus sorcerers like Korvan I would need to learn it.

Bleys took me through another card to see Random , King of Amber, home of the Pattern.