The Crystal Slumber:

Today another realm is touched upon, The Crystal Slumber, Feluk, home to the crystaline sentients known as the Bodel.  While their lands are filled with valuable minerals and abundant clean water, they also have many crystals which hum with positive energy, though their song can lull the unprepared into a deep slumber.  If this happens, the crystals will coat them with their expansion and slowly convert them into Bodle clusters, spawning eggs from which Bodles hatch.  When two or more individuals are coated in the crystals and their crystals meet, a new Bodle is born with mixed memories and positive traits from its 'parents'.  Those used to make a new Bodle will then be freed by their offspring, though it may have been centuries before they were returned to their native realm.  Those that are freed will be given an incredible amount of wealth in return for their time and service, but some may say that the cost of potentially living beyond the deaths of their loved ones may not be worth it...