The room was very dark, lit only by a flashlight in the hand of one of the people standing around him. He could see their heat patterns in the dark, three of them—one troll woman, huge in her red robes covered with arcane symbols; one human woman with runic scars over her white skin; and the other . . . seemingly a bearded human man, but there was something off about him. Something blank, like cyberware from astral space. But it wasn't cyberware.