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"I'll be sure to take my lessons in caution from someone who rashly approached a wild, unknown, and well-armed creature with the assumption that we could work together with it and its insectoid intelligence," Lorath replied to Bas's statement about the fruit. "I'm aware that they're somewhat magical, but as with all things magical it's assumed that it should be identified and fully examined before anybody tries to use it."
He tried his best to hide a glib smile and arrogant look when he heard their questions. "Not quite," he said, pointing at the metal frame. "See, this is an inter-dimensional portal, which takes full form when it's completely extended. Basically when the gateway is locked in position, it opens a doorway between two different locations, between which you can instantaneously travel. In this case, the destination is an abandoned fortress which nobody but us can access. The portal is many orders of magnitude more complicated than a simple tent both structurally and in function."
The party could see it vaguely taking shape, something like a wireframe bird cage in the shape of a four-dimensional hyperpyramid, but it wasn't going to be finished any time soon with just his two hands. When he finished locking one section in place, one of the joints on the other side would collapse. "Now please, it works best with three people working to open it so that all the joints are locked at the same time."
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