Every once in a while, they would set back down on the earth, just long enough for Hohen and Terrick to duck out of the mirror-curtain and into reality again, bringing yet more people into their party. Or they would set back down on the earth, just long enough for the magicians to feed the mere mortals they were accumulating like dirt on their soles. Terrick gave them all water to drink from a peculiar goblet, but he never let Ava have very much of it.