"I'm too used to celestial teleportation. Can't give the secret, but it certainly isn't magnetic. Magnetic pulse's a rather old-school method of teleportation..."
Firuthi hesitated.
".....wait a second.... that book about dragons I was reading earlier mentioned a spacefaring dragon that's attuned to magnetic fields.... don't tell me...."
Firuthi reached out his mind with telepathy.
"Tyrim, scan for celestial dragon impulses, NOW!"
"Already on it! Team, I just detected someone teleporting in a crate with about twenty dragons. They all have corrupted celestial essence! Emaciated, batlike.... there's a strange energy field in them-"
"That's.... a keim field?..... Keim fields are a type of wormhole power innate to some creatures, including-"
"Watch out! Those are byakhees!"
"Byakhees? This is a mortal empire, Cooper!"
"I know! I have no idea how the Shogun Empire got hold of these!"
"Looks like they threw everything into this one defense. Hastur's goon squad is teleporting in. Demonstrates once and for all that the King in Yellow is directly involved in this fight, even if he isn't on this planet."